This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer
to the 4.19-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-restrict-cpu_big_endian-to-gnu-as-or-llvm-ias-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4c762ee5a651ad98e47860959d05a8cb18248bdf
Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 25 10:21:28 2023 -0700
arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer
[ Upstream commit 146a15b873353f8ac28dc281c139ff611a3c4848 ]
Prior to LLVM 15.0.0, LLVM's integrated assembler would incorrectly
byte-swap NOP when compiling for big-endian, and the resulting series of
bytes happened to match the encoding of FNMADD S21, S30, S0, S0.
This went unnoticed until commit:
34f66c4c4d5518c1 ("arm64: Use a positive cpucap for FP/SIMD")
Prior to that commit, the kernel would always enable the use of FPSIMD
early in boot when __cpu_setup() initialized CPACR_EL1, and so usage of
FNMADD within the kernel was not detected, but could result in the
corruption of user or kernel FPSIMD state.
After that commit, the instructions happen to trap during boot prior to
FPSIMD being detected and enabled, e.g.
| Unhandled 64-bit el1h sync exception on CPU0, ESR 0x000000001fe00000 -- ASIMD
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| pstate: 400000c9 (nZcv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : __pi_strcmp+0x1c/0x150
| lr : populate_properties+0xe4/0x254
| sp : ffffd014173d3ad0
| x29: ffffd014173d3af0 x28: fffffbfffddffcb8 x27: 0000000000000000
| x26: 0000000000000058 x25: fffffbfffddfe054 x24: 0000000000000008
| x23: fffffbfffddfe000 x22: fffffbfffddfe000 x21: fffffbfffddfe044
| x20: ffffd014173d3b70 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000005
| x17: 0000000000000010 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 00000000413e7000
| x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000001bcc x12: 0000000000000000
| x11: 00000000d00dfeed x10: ffffd414193f2cd0 x9 : 0000000000000000
| x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : ffffffffffffffc0 x6 : 0000000000000000
| x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0101010101010101 x3 : 000000000000002a
| x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffd014171f2988 x0 : fffffbfffddffcb8
| Kernel panic - not syncing: Unhandled exception
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| Call trace:
| dump_backtrace+0xec/0x108
| show_stack+0x18/0x2c
| dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68
| dump_stack+0x18/0x24
| panic+0x13c/0x340
| el1t_64_irq_handler+0x0/0x1c
| el1_abort+0x0/0x5c
| el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
| __pi_strcmp+0x1c/0x150
| unflatten_dt_nodes+0x1e8/0x2d8
| __unflatten_device_tree+0x5c/0x15c
| unflatten_device_tree+0x38/0x50
| setup_arch+0x164/0x1e0
| start_kernel+0x64/0x38c
| __primary_switched+0xbc/0xc4
Restrict CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to a known good assembler, which is
either GNU as or LLVM's IAS 15.0.0 and newer, which contains the linked
commit.
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1948
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1379b150991f70a5782e9a143c2ba5308da1161c
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025-disable-arm64-be-ias-b4-llvm-15-v1-1-b25263ed8b23@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 92646f12a66d2..ff8e0db1693e9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -759,6 +759,8 @@ choice
config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
bool "Build big-endian kernel"
depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 130000
+ # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1379b150991f70a5782e9a143c2ba5308da1161c
+ depends on AS_IS_GNU || AS_VERSION >= 150000
help
Say Y if you plan on running a kernel with a big-endian userspace.
