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Commit d821940f authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by corsicanu
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compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64



commit dca5244d2f5b94f1809f0c02a549edf41ccd5493 upstream.

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: default avatarRussell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus 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: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
[will: backport to 4.4.y/4.9.y/4.14.y; add __clang__ check]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYuzE9WMSB7uGjV4gTzK510SHEdJb_UXQCzsQ5MqA=h9SA@mail.gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0a8b43b3
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