This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390: Mark psw in __load_psw_mask() as __unitialized 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: s390-mark-psw-in-__load_psw_mask-as-__unitialized.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. commit 498c077e53fb9da9f58d701a6f5e8c1670afaa22 Author: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 30 16:30:01 2024 +0200 s390: Mark psw in __load_psw_mask() as __unitialized [ Upstream commit 7278a8fb8d032dfdc03d9b5d17e0bc451cdc1492 ] Without __unitialized, the following code is generated when INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled: 86: d7 0f f0 a0 f0 a0 xc 160(16,%r15), 160(%r15) 8c: e3 40 f0 a0 00 24 stg %r4, 160(%r15) 92: c0 10 00 00 00 08 larl %r1, 0xa2 98: e3 10 f0 a8 00 24 stg %r1, 168(%r15) 9e: b2 b2 f0 a0 lpswe 160(%r15) The xc is not adding any security because psw is fully initialized with the following instructions. Add __unitialized to the psw definitiation to avoid the superfluous clearing of psw. Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h index dc17896a001a9..e7338ed540d8f 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h @@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ static inline void __load_psw(psw_t psw) */ static __always_inline void __load_psw_mask(unsigned long mask) { + psw_t psw __uninitialized; unsigned long addr; - psw_t psw; psw.mask = mask;