This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH] sparc64: repair calling incorrect hweight function from stubs
to the 4.14-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:
sparc64-repair-calling-incorrect-hweight-function-from-stubs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Jan 1 11:05:39 CET 2018
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 03:43:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sparc64: repair calling incorrect hweight function from stubs
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 59585b4be9ae4dc6506551709bdcd6f5210b8a01 ]
Commit v4.12-rc4-1-g9289ea7f952b introduced a mistake that made the
64-bit hweight stub call the 16-bit hweight function.
Fixes: 9289ea7f952b ("sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs")
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_hweight32)
.previous
ENTRY(__arch_hweight64)
- sethi %hi(__sw_hweight16), %g1
- jmpl %g1 + %lo(__sw_hweight16), %g0
+ sethi %hi(__sw_hweight64), %g1
+ jmpl %g1 + %lo(__sw_hweight64), %g0
nop
ENDPROC(__arch_hweight64)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_hweight64)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jengelh@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/sparc64-repair-calling-incorrect-hweight-function-from-stubs.patch