Patch "x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly

to the 4.4-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-make-asm-alternative.h-safe-from-assembly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 f005f5d860e0231fe212cfda8c1a3148b99609f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:23:25 -0700
Subject: x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit f005f5d860e0231fe212cfda8c1a3148b99609f4 upstream.

asm/alternative.h isn't directly useful from assembly, but it
shouldn't break the build.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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/e5b693fcef99fe6e80341c9e97a002fb23871e91.1461698311.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Razvan Ghitulete <rga@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_H
 #define _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_H
 
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/stddef.h>
 #include <linux/stringify.h>
@@ -271,4 +273,6 @@ extern void *text_poke(void *addr, const
 extern int poke_int3_handler(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void *text_poke_bp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, void *handler);
 
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_H */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-asm-use-register-variable-to-get-stack-pointer-value.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-32-move-setup_clear_cpu_cap-x86_feature_pcid-earlier.patch
queue-4.4/x86-asm-make-asm-alternative.h-safe-from-assembly.patch