This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: math-emu: Remove pr_err() calls from fpu_emu()
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:
mips-math-emu-remove-pr_err-calls-from-fpu_emu.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 ca8eb05b5f332a9e1ab3e2ece498d49f4d683470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:12:21 -0700
Subject: MIPS: math-emu: Remove pr_err() calls from fpu_emu()
From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ca8eb05b5f332a9e1ab3e2ece498d49f4d683470 upstream.
The FPU emulator includes 2 calls to pr_err() which are triggered by
invalid instruction encodings for MIPSr6 cmp.cond.fmt instructions.
These cases are not kernel errors, merely invalid instructions which are
already handled by delivering a SIGILL which will provide notification
that something failed in cases where that makes sense.
In cases where that SIGILL is somewhat expected & being handled, for
example when crashme happens to generate one of the affected bad
encodings, the message is printed with no useful context about what
triggered it & spams the kernel log for no good reason.
Remove the pr_err() calls to make crashme run silently & treat the bad
encodings the same way we do others, with a SIGILL & no further kernel
log output.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: f8c3c6717a71 ("MIPS: math-emu: Add support for the CMP.condn.fmt R6 instruction")
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17253/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c
+++ b/arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c
@@ -2386,7 +2386,6 @@ dcopuop:
break;
default:
/* Reserved R6 ops */
- pr_err("Reserved MIPS R6 CMP.condn.S operation\n");
return SIGILL;
}
}
@@ -2460,7 +2459,6 @@ dcopuop:
break;
default:
/* Reserved R6 ops */
- pr_err("Reserved MIPS R6 CMP.condn.D operation\n");
return SIGILL;
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mips-math-emu-remove-pr_err-calls-from-fpu_emu.patch