This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl
to the 3.18-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-io-add-memory-clobber-to-insb-insw-insl-outsb-outsw-outsl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7206f9bf108eb9513d170c73f151367a1bdf3dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:53:02 +0200
Subject: x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
commit 7206f9bf108eb9513d170c73f151367a1bdf3dbf upstream.
The x86 version of insb/insw/insl uses an inline assembly that does
not have the target buffer listed as an output. This can confuse
the compiler, leading it to think that a subsequent access of the
buffer is uninitialized:
drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c: In function ‘wl3501_mgmt_scan_confirm’:
drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:665:9: error: ‘sig.status’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:668:12: error: ‘sig.cap_info’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
drivers/net/sb1000.c: In function 'sb1000_rx':
drivers/net/sb1000.c:775:9: error: 'st[0]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
drivers/net/sb1000.c:776:10: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
drivers/net/sb1000.c:784:11: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
I tried to mark the exact input buffer as an output here, but couldn't
figure it out. As suggested by Linus, marking all memory as clobbered
however is good enough too. For the outs operations, I also add the
memory clobber, to force the input to be written to local variables.
This is probably already guaranteed by the "asm volatile", but it can't
hurt to do this for symmetry.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-5-arnd@xxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/12/605
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
@@ -297,13 +297,13 @@ static inline unsigned type in##bwl##_p(
static inline void outs##bwl(int port, const void *addr, unsigned long count) \
{ \
asm volatile("rep; outs" #bwl \
- : "+S"(addr), "+c"(count) : "d"(port)); \
+ : "+S"(addr), "+c"(count) : "d"(port) : "memory"); \
} \
\
static inline void ins##bwl(int port, void *addr, unsigned long count) \
{ \
asm volatile("rep; ins" #bwl \
- : "+D"(addr), "+c"(count) : "d"(port)); \
+ : "+D"(addr), "+c"(count) : "d"(port) : "memory"); \
}
BUILDIO(b, b, char)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/x86-io-add-memory-clobber-to-insb-insw-insl-outsb-outsw-outsl.patch
queue-3.18/scsi-isci-avoid-array-subscript-warning.patch