This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/kasan: Fix boot with KASAN=y and PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES=y to the 4.9-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: x86-kasan-fix-boot-with-kasan-y-and-profile_annotated_branches-y.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From be3606ff739d1c1be36389f8737c577ad87e1f57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:33:37 +0300 Subject: x86/kasan: Fix boot with KASAN=y and PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES=y From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit be3606ff739d1c1be36389f8737c577ad87e1f57 upstream. The kernel doesn't boot with both PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES=y and KASAN=y options selected. With branch profiling enabled we end up calling ftrace_likely_update() before kasan_early_init(). ftrace_likely_update() is built with KASAN instrumentation, so calling it before kasan has been initialized leads to crash. Use DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING define to make sure that we don't call ftrace_likely_update() from early code before kasan_early_init(). Fixes: ef7f0d6a6ca8 ("x86_64: add KASan support") Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kasan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: lkp@xxxxxx Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313163337.1704-1-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2000 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> SuSE */ +#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/linkage.h> #include <linux/types.h> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING #define pr_fmt(fmt) "kasan: " fmt #include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <linux/kasan.h> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/x86-kasan-fix-boot-with-kasan-y-and-profile_annotated_branches-y.patch