This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling to the 3.10-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: arm-7876-1-clear-thumb-2-it-state-on-exception-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e16b31bf47738f4498d7ce632e12d7d2a6a2492a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:42:29 +0100 Subject: ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling From: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit e16b31bf47738f4498d7ce632e12d7d2a6a2492a upstream. The exception handling code fails to clear the IT state, potentially leading to incorrect execution of the fixup if the size of the IT block is more than one. Let fixup_exception do the IT sanitizing if a fixup has been found, and restore CPSR from the stack when returning from a data abort. Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 1 + arch/arm/mm/extable.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ __dabt_svc: svc_entry mov r2, sp dabt_helper + THUMB( ldr r5, [sp, #S_PSR] ) @ potentially updated CPSR svc_exit r5 @ return from exception UNWIND(.fnend ) ENDPROC(__dabt_svc) --- a/arch/arm/mm/extable.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/extable.c @@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs const struct exception_table_entry *fixup; fixup = search_exception_tables(instruction_pointer(regs)); - if (fixup) + if (fixup) { regs->ARM_pc = fixup->fixup; +#ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL + /* Clear the IT state to avoid nasty surprises in the fixup */ + regs->ARM_cpsr &= ~PSR_IT_MASK; +#endif + } return fixup != NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Marc.Zyngier@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/arm-7876-1-clear-thumb-2-it-state-on-exception-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html