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authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2021-01-13 01:48:32 +0300
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2021-01-15 13:04:49 +0300
commitdca5244d2f5b94f1809f0c02a549edf41ccd5493 (patch)
tree4988f8af3e5e35f43e409e8fc2b1d053cfe827f9
parentc35a824c31834d947fb99b0c608c1b9f922b4ba0 (diff)
downloadlinux-dca5244d2f5b94f1809f0c02a549edf41ccd5493.tar.xz
compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64
GCC versions >= 4.9 and < 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the link below. Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version required by arm64 to 5.1. Reported-by: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler-gcc.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 74c6c0486eed..555ab0fddbef 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 */
#if GCC_VERSION < 40900
# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer.
+#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && GCC_VERSION < 50100
+/*
+ * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63293
+ * https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107111841.GN1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
+ */
+# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 5.1 or newer.
#endif
/*