This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/LDT: Avoid warning in 32-bit builds with older gcc
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-ldt-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds-with-older-gcc.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From f2f18b16c779978ece4a04f304a92ff9ac8fbce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:52:10 -0700 Subject: x86/LDT: Avoid warning in 32-bit builds with older gcc
From: Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com
commit f2f18b16c779978ece4a04f304a92ff9ac8fbce5 upstream.
BUG() doesn't always imply "no return", and hence should be followed by a return statement even if that's obviously (to a human) unreachable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5A8AF2AA02000078001A91E9@prv-mh.provo.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static inline void *ldt_slot_va(int slot return (void *)(LDT_BASE_ADDR + LDT_SLOT_STRIDE * slot); #else BUG(); + return (void *)fix_to_virt(FIX_HOLE); #endif }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@suse.com are
queue-4.15/x86-ldt-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds-with-older-gcc.patch queue-4.15/x86-asm-improve-how-gen_-_suffixed_rmwcc-specify-clobbers.patch queue-4.15/x86-64-realmode-add-instruction-suffix.patch queue-4.15/x86-io-apic-avoid-warning-in-32-bit-builds.patch