Patch "x86/asm: Don't use the confusing '.ifeq' directive" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/asm: Don't use the confusing '.ifeq' directive

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-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 82c62fa0c49aa305104013cee4468772799bb391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:21:35 -0500
Subject: x86/asm: Don't use the confusing '.ifeq' directive

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

commit 82c62fa0c49aa305104013cee4468772799bb391 upstream.

I find the '.ifeq <expression>' directive to be confusing.  Reading it
quickly seems to suggest its opposite meaning, or that it's missing an
argument.

Improve readability by replacing all of its x86 uses with
'.if <expression> == 0'.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/757da028e802c7e98d23fbab8d234b1063e161cf.1508516398.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ ENTRY(\sym)
 
 	ASM_CLAC
 
-	.ifeq \has_error_code
+	.if \has_error_code == 0
 	pushq	$-1				/* ORIG_RAX: no syscall to restart */
 	.endif
 
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	# 24(%rsp) error code
 	i = 0
 	.rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS
-	.ifeq (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
+	.if ((EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1) == 0
 	pushl $0		# Dummy error code, to make stack frame uniform
 	.endif
 	pushl $i		# 20(%esp) Vector number
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
 ENTRY(early_idt_handler_array)
 	i = 0
 	.rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS
-	.ifeq (EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1
+	.if ((EXCEPTION_ERRCODE_MASK >> i) & 1) == 0
 		UNWIND_HINT_IRET_REGS
 		pushq $0	# Dummy error code, to make stack frame uniform
 	.else


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch
queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/objtool-print-top-level-commands-on-incorrect-usage.patch
queue-4.14/x86-unwind-rename-unwinder-config-options-to-config_unwinder_.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch
queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch
queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-the-64-bit-defconfig.patch
queue-4.14/x86-unwind-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-kconfig-for-64-bit.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch
queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch