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Commit 4b527f25 authored by Dave Airlie's avatar Dave Airlie Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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locking/qspinlock: Pull in asm/byteorder.h to ensure correct endianness

This commit is not required upstream, but is required for the 4.9.y
stable series.

Upstream commit 101110f6271c ("Kbuild: always define endianess in
kconfig.h") ensures that either __LITTLE_ENDIAN or __BIG_ENDIAN is
defined to reflect the endianness of the target CPU architecture
regardless of whether or not <asm/byteorder.h> has been #included. The
upstream definition of 'struct qspinlock' relies on this property.

Unfortunately, the 4.9.y stable series does not provide this guarantee,
so the 'spin_unlock()' routine can erroneously treat the underlying
lockword as big-endian on little-endian architectures using native
qspinlock (i.e. x86_64 without PV) if the caller has not included
<asm/byteorder.h>. This can lead to hangs such as the one in
'i915_gem_request()' reported via bugzilla:

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202063



Fix the issue by ensuring that <asm/byteorder.h> is #included in
<asm/qspinlock_types.h>, where 'struct qspinlock' is defined.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
[will: wrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent cac2590d
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