This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: fix inline asm in load_unaligned_zeropad() to the 5.4-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: arm64-fix-inline-asm-in-load_unaligned_zeropad.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 185f2e5f51c2029efd9dd26cceb968a44fe053c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 09:51:10 -0700 Subject: arm64: fix inline asm in load_unaligned_zeropad() From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 185f2e5f51c2029efd9dd26cceb968a44fe053c6 upstream. The inline asm's addr operand is marked as input-only, however in the case where an exception is taken it may be modified by the BIC instruction on the exception path. Fix the problem by using a temporary register as the destination register for the BIC instruction. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I84538c8a2307d567b4f45bb20b715451005f9617 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401165110.3952103-1-pcc@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static inline unsigned long find_zero(un */ static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr) { - unsigned long ret, offset; + unsigned long ret, tmp; /* Load word from unaligned pointer addr */ asm( @@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ static inline unsigned long load_unalign "2:\n" " .pushsection .fixup,\"ax\"\n" " .align 2\n" - "3: and %1, %2, #0x7\n" - " bic %2, %2, #0x7\n" - " ldr %0, [%2]\n" + "3: bic %1, %2, #0x7\n" + " ldr %0, [%1]\n" + " and %1, %2, #0x7\n" " lsl %1, %1, #0x3\n" #ifndef __AARCH64EB__ " lsr %0, %0, %1\n" @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static inline unsigned long load_unalign " b 2b\n" " .popsection\n" _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b) - : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (offset) + : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (tmp) : "r" (addr), "Q" (*(unsigned long *)addr)); return ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pcc@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/arm64-fix-inline-asm-in-load_unaligned_zeropad.patch