From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:58:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 00/11] Fix arm64 issues highlighted by sparse and smatch In-Reply-To: <20140826170529.GZ23445@arm.com> References: <1409062410-25891-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <20140826145614.GE6689@cbox> <20140826170529.GZ23445@arm.com> Message-ID: <20140827205842.GA19836@cbox> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 06:05:29PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Christoffer, > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:56:14PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:13:19PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > After the static checking talk at kernel summit, I felt empowered to go > > > and run sparse and smatch over the arm64 defconfig. As I anticipated, > > > this spotted a few issues in the arch code, so I've fixed up the ones > > > that aren't just noise in this series. Most are simply incorrect > > > address space annotations, but fixing these is useful for spotting real > > > issues in the future. > > > > > > I don't think any of these fix critical bugs, but they all deserve to be > > > addressed. I tagged the compat watchpoint fix for stable, as that code > > > has been broken since we merged the architecture port. > > > > > > > Do you want me to queue the kvm ones or did you have other plans to > > upstream this entire series as one? > > They're all independent, so please take the kvm ones via your tree. I can > send a separate pull if you prefer? Jason -- would you like an > irqchip-specific pull for those? > > > Also, do you consider these fixes for 3.17 (what about cc for stable in > > that case), or for 3.18? > > The only one I CC'd stable for was the compat ptrace watchpoint patch, > because that's something that we've been getting wrong and will cause > breakage with a 32-bit GDB. I don't consider the others urgent (i.e. happy > if you wait until 3.18). > Applied to queue, thanks. -Christoffer