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    ARM: 9081/1: fix gcc-10 thumb2-kernel regression · 48a5449c
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    
    
    commit dad7b9896a5dbac5da8275d5a6147c65c81fb5f2 upstream.
    
    When building the kernel wtih gcc-10 or higher using the
    CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE=y flag, the compiler picks a slightly
    different set of registers for the inline assembly in cpu_init() that
    subsequently results in a corrupt kernel stack as well as remaining in
    FIQ mode. If a banked register is used for the last argument, the wrong
    version of that register gets loaded into CPSR_c.  When building in Arm
    mode, the arguments are passed as immediate values and the bug cannot
    happen.
    
    This got introduced when Daniel reworked the FIQ handling and was
    technically always broken, but happened to work with both clang and gcc
    before gcc-10 as long as they picked one of the lower registers.
    This is probably an indication that still very few people build the
    kernel in Thumb2 mode.
    
    Marek pointed out the problem on IRC, Arnd narrowed it down to this
    inline assembly and Russell pinpointed the exact bug.
    
    Change the constraints to force the final mode switch to use a non-banked
    register for the argument to ensure that the correct constant gets loaded.
    Another alternative would be to always use registers for the constant
    arguments to avoid the #ifdef that has now become more complex.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
    Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarMarek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Fixes: c0e7f7ee
    
     ("ARM: 8150/3: fiq: Replace default FIQ handler")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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