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