[PATCH 4.4 074/131] arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit b660950c60a7278f9d8deb7c32a162031207c758 ]

The implementation of macro inv_entry refers to its 'el' argument without
the required leading backslash, which results in an undefined symbol
'el' to be passed into the kernel_entry macro rather than the index of
the exception level as intended.

This undefined symbol strangely enough does not result in build failures,
although it is visible in vmlinux:

     $ nm -n vmlinux |head
                      U el
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_flags_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_offset_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_size_le_hi32
     000000000000000a A _kernel_flags_le_lo32
     .....

However, it does result in incorrect code being generated for invalid
exceptions taken from EL0, since the argument check in kernel_entry
assumes EL1 if its argument does not equal '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 3028d9b028c7..586326981769 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ END(vectors)
  * Invalid mode handlers
  */
 	.macro	inv_entry, el, reason, regsize = 64
-	kernel_entry el, \regsize
+	kernel_entry \el, \regsize
 	mov	x0, sp
 	mov	x1, #\reason
 	mrs	x2, esr_el1
-- 
2.19.1






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