From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DA8C433E0 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9D8208A9 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727112AbgG3MWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:22:06 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60456 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726631AbgG3MWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:22:06 -0400 Received: from gaia (unknown [95.146.230.158]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 61F592082E; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:22:01 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Sami Tolvanen Cc: Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , Nick Desaulniers , Kees Cook , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/alternatives: move length validation inside the subsection Message-ID: <20200730122201.GM25149@gaia> References: <20200729215152.662225-1-samitolvanen@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200729215152.662225-1-samitolvanen@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 02:51:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > Commit f7b93d42945c ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement > sequences") breaks LLVM's integrated assembler, because due to its > one-pass design, it cannot compute instruction sequence lengths before the > layout for the subsection has been finalized. This change fixes the build > by moving the .org directives inside the subsection, so they are processed > after the subsection layout is known. > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1078 > Cc: # 4.14+ Commit f7b93d42945c went in 5.8-rc4. Why is this cc stable from 4.14? If Will picks it up for 5.8, it doesn't even need a cc stable. Please add a Fixes: tag as well. -- Catalin