This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: diskonchip: work around ubsan link failure
to the 6.8-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:
mtd-diskonchip-work-around-ubsan-link-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 21c9fb611c25d5cd038f6fe485232e7884bb0b3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:30:04 +0200
Subject: mtd: diskonchip: work around ubsan link failure
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit 21c9fb611c25d5cd038f6fe485232e7884bb0b3d upstream.
I ran into a randconfig build failure with UBSAN using gcc-13.2:
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.bss..Lubsan_data31' from `drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.o'
I'm not entirely sure what is going on here, but I suspect this has something
to do with the check for the end of the doc_locations[] array that contains
an (unsigned long)0xffffffff element, which is compared against the signed
(int)0xffffffff. If this is the case, we should get a runtime check for
undefined behavior, but we instead get an unexpected build-time error.
I would have expected this to work fine on 32-bit architectures despite the
signed integer overflow, though on 64-bit architectures this likely won't
ever work.
Changing the contition to instead check for the size of the array makes the
code safe everywhere and avoids the ubsan check that leads to the link
error. The loop code goes back to before 2.6.12.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20240405143015.717429-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static unsigned long doc_locations[] __i
0xe8000, 0xea000, 0xec000, 0xee000,
#endif
#endif
- 0xffffffff };
+};
static struct mtd_info *doclist = NULL;
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ static int __init init_nanddoc(void)
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
} else {
- for (i = 0; (doc_locations[i] != 0xffffffff); i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(doc_locations); i++) {
doc_probe(doc_locations[i]);
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-6.8/mtd-diskonchip-work-around-ubsan-link-failure.patch
