ARM: 8550/1: protect idiv patching against undefined gcc behavior

Nicolas Pitre · Russell King · commit 208fae5c3b94 · 2016-04-07T21:57:02.000+01:00
It was reported that a kernel with CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_IDIV=y stopped booting when compiled with the upcoming gcc 6. Turns out that turning a function address into a writable array is undefined and gcc 6 decided it was OK to omit the store to the first word of the function while still preserving the store to the second word. Even though gcc 6 is now fixed to behave more coherently, it is a mystery that gcc 4 and gcc 5 actually produce wanted code in the kernel. And in fact the reduced test case to illustrate the issue does indeed break with gcc < 6 as well. In any case, let's guard the kernel against undefined compiler behavior by hiding the nature of the array location as suggested by gcc developers. Reference: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70128 Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Reported-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5 Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -430,11 +430,13 @@ static void __init patch_aeabi_idiv(void)
 	pr_info("CPU: div instructions available: patching division code\n");
 
 	fn_addr = ((uintptr_t)&__aeabi_uidiv) & ~1;
+	asm ("" : "+g" (fn_addr));
 	((u32 *)fn_addr)[0] = udiv_instruction();
 	((u32 *)fn_addr)[1] = bx_lr_instruction();
 	flush_icache_range(fn_addr, fn_addr + 8);
 
 	fn_addr = ((uintptr_t)&__aeabi_idiv) & ~1;
+	asm ("" : "+g" (fn_addr));
 	((u32 *)fn_addr)[0] = sdiv_instruction();
 	((u32 *)fn_addr)[1] = bx_lr_instruction();
 	flush_icache_range(fn_addr, fn_addr + 8);
