This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory
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:
kasan-do-not-sanitize-kexec-purgatory.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 foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:12:12 -0700
Subject: kasan: do not sanitize kexec purgatory
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 13a6798e4a03096b11bf402a063786a7be55d426 ]
Fixes this:
kexec: Undefined symbol: __asan_load8_noabort
kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489672155.4458.7.camel@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PURGATORY_OBJS = $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(p
LDFLAGS_purgatory.ro := -e purgatory_start -r --no-undefined -nostdlib -z nodefaultlib
targets += purgatory.ro
+KASAN_SANITIZE := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
# Default KBUILD_CFLAGS can have -pg option set when FTRACE is enabled. That
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from efault@xxxxxx are
queue-4.9/kasan-do-not-sanitize-kexec-purgatory.patch