This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ARM: orion: fix orion_ge00_switch_board_info initialization

to the 4.14-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: arm-orion-fix-orion_ge00_switch_board_info-initialization.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@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 8337d083507b9827dfb36d545538b7789df834fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:18:49 +0100 Subject: ARM: orion: fix orion_ge00_switch_board_info initialization

From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de

commit 8337d083507b9827dfb36d545538b7789df834fd upstream.

A section type mismatch warning shows up when building with LTO, since orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name was put in __initconst but not marked const itself:

include/linux/of.h: In function 'spear_setup_of_timer': arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: 'timer_of_match' causes a section type conflict with 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { ^ arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c:475:32: note: 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' was declared here static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; ^

As pointed out by Andrew Lunn, it should in fact be 'const' but not '__initconst' because the string is never copied but may be accessed after the init sections are freed. To fix that, I get rid of the extra symbol and rewrite the initialization in a simpler way that assigns both the bus_id and modalias statically.

I spotted another theoretical bug in the same place, where d->netdev[i] may be an out of bounds access, this can be fixed by moving the device assignment into the loop.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c +++ b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c @@ -472,28 +472,27 @@ void __init orion_ge11_init(struct mv643 /***************************************************************************** * Ethernet switch ****************************************************************************/ -static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; -static __initdata struct mdio_board_info - orion_ge00_switch_board_info; +static __initdata struct mdio_board_info orion_ge00_switch_board_info = { + .bus_id = "orion-mii", + .modalias = "mv88e6085", +};

void __init orion_ge00_switch_init(struct dsa_chip_data *d) { - struct mdio_board_info *bd; unsigned int i;

if (!IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_PHYLIB)) return;

- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(d->port_names); i++) - if (!strcmp(d->port_names[i], "cpu")) + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(d->port_names); i++) { + if (!strcmp(d->port_names[i], "cpu")) { + d->netdev[i] = &orion_ge00.dev; break; + } + }

- bd = &orion_ge00_switch_board_info; - bd->bus_id = orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name; - bd->mdio_addr = d->sw_addr; - d->netdev[i] = &orion_ge00.dev; - strcpy(bd->modalias, "mv88e6085"); - bd->platform_data = d; + orion_ge00_switch_board_info.mdio_addr = d->sw_addr; + orion_ge00_switch_board_info.platform_data = d;

mdiobus_register_board_info(&orion_ge00_switch_board_info, 1); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.14/tpm-constify-transmit-data-pointers.patch queue-4.14/ipv6-sit-work-around-bogus-gcc-8-wrestrict-warning.patch queue-4.14/arm-kvm-fix-building-with-gcc-8.patch queue-4.14/arm-orion-fix-orion_ge00_switch_board_info-initialization.patch