This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled parisc: Mark altinstructions read-only and 32-bit aligned to the 6.6-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: parisc-mark-altinstructions-read-only-and-32-bit-aligned.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 33f806da2df68606f77d7b892cd1298ba3d463e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:10:20 +0100 Subject: parisc: Mark altinstructions read-only and 32-bit aligned From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> commit 33f806da2df68606f77d7b892cd1298ba3d463e8 upstream. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.0+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/parisc/include/asm/alternative.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/alternative.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/alternative.h @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ void apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr /* Alternative SMP implementation. */ #define ALTERNATIVE(cond, replacement) "!0:" \ - ".section .altinstructions, \"aw\" !" \ + ".section .altinstructions, \"a\" !" \ + ".align 4 !" \ ".word (0b-4-.) !" \ ".hword 1, " __stringify(cond) " !" \ ".word " __stringify(replacement) " !" \ @@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ void apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr /* to replace one single instructions by a new instruction */ #define ALTERNATIVE(from, to, cond, replacement)\ - .section .altinstructions, "aw" ! \ + .section .altinstructions, "a" ! \ + .align 4 ! \ .word (from - .) ! \ .hword (to - from)/4, cond ! \ .word replacement ! \ @@ -52,7 +54,8 @@ void apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr /* to replace multiple instructions by new code */ #define ALTERNATIVE_CODE(from, num_instructions, cond, new_instr_ptr)\ - .section .altinstructions, "aw" ! \ + .section .altinstructions, "a" ! \ + .align 4 ! \ .word (from - .) ! \ .hword -num_instructions, cond ! \ .word (new_instr_ptr - .) ! \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are queue-6.6/parisc-ensure-32-bit-alignment-on-parisc-unwind-section.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-jump_table-naturally-aligned.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-ex_table-entries-32-bit-aligned-in-uaccess.h.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-altinstructions-read-only-and-32-bit-aligned.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-ex_table-entries-32-bit-aligned-in-assembly.h.patch queue-6.6/parisc-drop-the-hp-ux-enosym-and-eremoterelease-error-codes.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-lock_aligned-variables-16-byte-aligned-on-smp.patch queue-6.6/parisc-use-natural-cpu-alignment-for-bug_table.patch