Patch "kernel/exit.c: export abort() to modules" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "kernel/exit.c: export abort() to modules" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    kernel/exit.c: export abort() to modules

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:
     kernel-exit.c-export-abort-to-modules.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 dc8635b78cd8669c37e230058d18c33af7451ab1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:17:56 -0800
Subject: kernel/exit.c: export abort() to modules

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

commit dc8635b78cd8669c37e230058d18c33af7451ab1 upstream.

gcc -fisolate-erroneous-paths-dereference can generate calls to abort()
from modular code too.

[arnd@arndb.de: drop duplicate exports of abort()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180102103311.706364-1-arnd@arndb.de
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c       |    1 -
 arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c      |    1 -
 arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c |    1 -
 kernel/exit.c                 |    1 +
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -790,7 +790,6 @@ void abort(void)
 	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
 	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
 
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/traps.c
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ void abort(void)
 	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
 	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
 
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
--- a/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/unicore32/kernel/traps.c
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ void abort(void)
 	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
 	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);
 
 void __init trap_init(void)
 {
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1763,3 +1763,4 @@ __weak void abort(void)
 	/* if that doesn't kill us, halt */
 	panic("Oops failed to kill thread");
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from akpm@linux-foundation.org are

queue-4.14/arch-define-weak-abort.patch
queue-4.14/kernel-exit.c-export-abort-to-modules.patch