The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 0bbc931a074a741cf8e6279e8045cf7118586780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:45:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tpm_tis: make array cmd_getticks static const to shrink
object code size
Don't populate array cmd_getticks on the stack, instead make it static
const. Makes the object code smaller by over 160 bytes:
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
18813 3152 128 22093 564d drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.o
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
18554 3248 128 21930 55aa drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.o
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
index 63bc6c3b949e..1e957e923d21 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ static int probe_itpm(struct tpm_chip *chip)
{
struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
int rc = 0;
- u8 cmd_getticks[] = {
+ static const u8 cmd_getticks[] = {
0x00, 0xc1, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0a,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xf1
};