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

alpha: Fix mixed up args in EXC macro in futex operations

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: alpha-fix-mixed-up-args-in-exc-macro-in-futex-operations.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 84e455361ec97ea6037d31d42a2955628ea2094b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Michael Cree mcree@orcon.net.nz Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:25:01 +1300 Subject: alpha: Fix mixed up args in EXC macro in futex operations

From: Michael Cree mcree@orcon.net.nz

commit 84e455361ec97ea6037d31d42a2955628ea2094b upstream.

Fix the typo (mixed up arguments) in the EXC macro in the futex definitions introduced by commit ca282f697381 (alpha: add a helper for emitting exception table entries).

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree mcree@orcon.net.nz Signed-off-by: Matt Turner mattst88@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/futex.h @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ "3: .subsection 2\n" \ "4: br 1b\n" \ " .previous\n" \ - EXC(1b,3b,%1,$31) \ - EXC(2b,3b,%1,$31) \ + EXC(1b,3b,$31,%1) \ + EXC(2b,3b,$31,%1) \ : "=&r" (oldval), "=&r"(ret) \ : "r" (uaddr), "r"(oparg) \ : "memory") @@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, "3: .subsection 2\n" "4: br 1b\n" " .previous\n" - EXC(1b,3b,%0,$31) - EXC(2b,3b,%0,$31) + EXC(1b,3b,$31,%0) + EXC(2b,3b,$31,%0) : "+r"(ret), "=&r"(prev), "=&r"(cmp) : "r"(uaddr), "r"((long)(int)oldval), "r"(newval) : "memory");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mcree@orcon.net.nz are

queue-4.14/alpha-fix-mixed-up-args-in-exc-macro-in-futex-operations.patch