From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35872 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932170AbeB1PbC (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:31:02 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const"" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, alexander.levin@verizon.com, bhumirks@gmail.com, dvhart@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <15198316505515@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const" to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-platform-intel-mid-revert-make-bt_sfi_data-const.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:25:23 +0200 Subject: x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const" From: Andy Shevchenko [ Upstream commit 9d0513d82f1a8fe17b41f113ac5922fa57dbaf5c ] So one of the constification patches unearthed a type casting fragility of the underlying code: 276c87054751 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const") converted the struct to be const while it is also used as a temporary container for important data that is used to fill 'parent' and 'name' fields in struct platform_device_info. The compiler doesn't notice this due to an explicit type cast that loses the const - which fragility will be fixed separately. This type cast turned a seemingly trivial const propagation patch into a hard to debug data corruptor and crasher bug. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Bhumika Goyal Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171228122523.21802-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int __init tng_bt_sfi_setup(struc return 0; } -static const struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = { +static struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = { .setup = tng_bt_sfi_setup, }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com are queue-4.14/x86-platform-intel-mid-revert-make-bt_sfi_data-const.patch queue-4.14/genirq-guard-handle_bad_irq-log-messages.patch