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

powerpc/bpf/jit: Disable classic BPF JIT on ppc64le

to the 4.4-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: powerpc-bpf-jit-disable-classic-bpf-jit-on-ppc64le.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 844e3be47693f92a108cb1fb3b0606bf25e9c7a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Naveen N. Rao" naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:55:01 +0530 Subject: powerpc/bpf/jit: Disable classic BPF JIT on ppc64le

From: Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

commit 844e3be47693f92a108cb1fb3b0606bf25e9c7a6 upstream.

Classic BPF JIT was never ported completely to work on little endian powerpc. However, it can be enabled and will crash the system when used. As such, disable use of BPF JIT on ppc64le.

Fixes: 7c105b63bd98 ("powerpc: Add CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN kernel config option.") Reported-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ config PPC select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS - select HAVE_BPF_JIT + select HAVE_BPF_JIT if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.4/powerpc-bpf-jit-disable-classic-bpf-jit-on-ppc64le.patch