From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56312 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728AbeAGIiV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2018 03:38:21 -0500 Subject: Patch "ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: vgupta@synopsys.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 09:38:22 +0100 Message-ID: <151531430219514@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 ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier to the 4.9-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: arc-uaccess-dont-use-l-gcc-inline-asm-constraint-modifier.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 79435ac78d160e4c245544d457850a56f805ac0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vineet Gupta Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:26:58 -0800 Subject: ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier From: Vineet Gupta commit 79435ac78d160e4c245544d457850a56f805ac0d upstream. This used to setup the LP_COUNT register automatically, but now has been removed. There was an earlier fix 3c7c7a2fc8811 which fixed instance in delay.h but somehow missed this one as gcc change had not made its way into production toolchains and was not pedantic as it is now ! Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -673,6 +673,7 @@ __arc_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const return 0; __asm__ __volatile__( + " mov lp_count, %5 \n" " lp 3f \n" "1: ldb.ab %3, [%2, 1] \n" " breq.d %3, 0, 3f \n" @@ -689,8 +690,8 @@ __arc_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const " .word 1b, 4b \n" " .previous \n" : "+r"(res), "+r"(dst), "+r"(src), "=r"(val) - : "g"(-EFAULT), "l"(count) - : "memory"); + : "g"(-EFAULT), "r"(count) + : "lp_count", "lp_start", "lp_end", "memory"); return res; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vgupta@synopsys.com are queue-4.9/arc-uaccess-dont-use-l-gcc-inline-asm-constraint-modifier.patch