Patch "compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions

to the 4.4-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:
     compiler-gcc-disable-ftracer-for-__noclone-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 95272c29378ee7dc15f43fa2758cb28a5913a06d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:38:51 +0200
Subject: compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 95272c29378ee7dc15f43fa2758cb28a5913a06d upstream.

-ftracer can duplicate asm blocks causing compilation to fail in
noclone functions.  For example, KVM declares a global variable
in an asm like

    asm("2: ... \n
         .pushsection data \n
         .global vmx_return \n
         vmx_return: .long 2b");

and -ftracer causes a double declaration.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Linda Walsh <lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
 #define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
 
 /* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
-#define __noclone	__attribute__((__noclone__))
+#define __noclone	__attribute__((__noclone__, __optimize__("no-tracer")))
 
 #endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40500 */
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.4/compiler-gcc-disable-ftracer-for-__noclone-functions.patch
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