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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>x86, vmlinux.lds: Page-align end of ..page_aligned sections</title>
<updated>2020-07-29T08:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T09:34:48+00:00</published>
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commit de2b41be8fcccb2f5b6c480d35df590476344201 upstream.

On x86-32 the idt_table with 256 entries needs only 2048 bytes. It is
page-aligned, but the end of the .bss..page_aligned section is not
guaranteed to be page-aligned.

As a result, objects from other .bss sections may end up on the same 4k
page as the idt_table, and will accidentially get mapped read-only during
boot, causing unexpected page-faults when the kernel writes to them.

This could be worked around by making the objects in the page aligned
sections page sized, but that's wrong.

Explicit sections which store only page aligned objects have an implicit
guarantee that the object is alone in the page in which it is placed. That
works for all objects except the last one. That's inconsistent.

Enforcing page sized objects for these sections would wreckage memory
sanitizers, because the object becomes artificially larger than it should
be and out of bound access becomes legit.

Align the end of the .bss..page_aligned and .data..page_aligned section on
page-size so all objects places in these sections are guaranteed to have
their own page.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721093448.10417-1-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit de2b41be8fcccb2f5b6c480d35df590476344201 upstream.

On x86-32 the idt_table with 256 entries needs only 2048 bytes. It is
page-aligned, but the end of the .bss..page_aligned section is not
guaranteed to be page-aligned.

As a result, objects from other .bss sections may end up on the same 4k
page as the idt_table, and will accidentially get mapped read-only during
boot, causing unexpected page-faults when the kernel writes to them.

This could be worked around by making the objects in the page aligned
sections page sized, but that's wrong.

Explicit sections which store only page aligned objects have an implicit
guarantee that the object is alone in the page in which it is placed. That
works for all objects except the last one. That's inconsistent.

Enforcing page sized objects for these sections would wreckage memory
sanitizers, because the object becomes artificially larger than it should
be and out of bound access becomes legit.

Align the end of the .bss..page_aligned and .data..page_aligned section on
page-size so all objects places in these sections are guaranteed to have
their own page.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721093448.10417-1-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/unwind/orc: Fix ORC unwind table alignment</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T19:10:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-06T17:07:24+00:00</published>
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commit f76a16adc485699f95bb71fce114f97c832fe664 upstream.

The .orc_unwind section is a packed array of 6-byte structs.  It's
currently aligned to 6 bytes, which is causing warnings in the LLD
linker.

Six isn't a power of two, so it's not a valid alignment value.  The
actual alignment doesn't matter much because it's an array of packed
structs.  An alignment of two is sufficient.  In reality it always gets
aligned to four bytes because it comes immediately after the
4-byte-aligned .orc_unwind_ip section.

Fixes: ee9f8fce9964 ("x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder")
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/218
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d55027ee95fe73e952dcd8be90aebd31b0095c45.1551892041.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f76a16adc485699f95bb71fce114f97c832fe664 upstream.

The .orc_unwind section is a packed array of 6-byte structs.  It's
currently aligned to 6 bytes, which is causing warnings in the LLD
linker.

Six isn't a power of two, so it's not a valid alignment value.  The
actual alignment doesn't matter much because it's an array of packed
structs.  An alignment of two is sufficient.  In reality it always gets
aligned to four bytes because it comes immediately after the
4-byte-aligned .orc_unwind_ip section.

Fixes: ee9f8fce9964 ("x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder")
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/218
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d55027ee95fe73e952dcd8be90aebd31b0095c45.1551892041.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Fix linker warnings about orphan .LPBX sections</title>
<updated>2018-10-11T21:55:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>oberpar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T11:00:00+00:00</published>
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Enabling both CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y and
CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y results in linker warnings:

  warning: orphan section `.data..LPBX1' being placed in
  section `.data..LPBX1'.

LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION adds compiler flag -fdata-sections. This
option causes GCC to create separate data sections for data objects,
including those generated by GCC internally for gcov profiling. The
names of these objects start with a dot (.LPBX0, .LPBX1), resulting in
section names starting with 'data..'.

As section names starting with 'data..' are used for specific purposes
in the Linux kernel, the linker script does not automatically include
them in the output data section, resulting in the "orphan section"
linker warnings.

Fix this by specifically including sections named "data..LPBX*" in the
data section.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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Enabling both CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y and
CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y results in linker warnings:

  warning: orphan section `.data..LPBX1' being placed in
  section `.data..LPBX1'.

LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION adds compiler flag -fdata-sections. This
option causes GCC to create separate data sections for data objects,
including those generated by GCC internally for gcov profiling. The
names of these objects start with a dot (.LPBX0, .LPBX1), resulting in
section names starting with 'data..'.

As section names starting with 'data..' are used for specific purposes
in the Linux kernel, the linker script does not automatically include
them in the output data section, resulting in the "orphan section"
linker warnings.

Fix this by specifically including sections named "data..LPBX*" in the
data section.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Fix incomplete .text.exit discards</title>
<updated>2018-10-11T21:54:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>oberpar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T10:59:59+00:00</published>
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Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y causes linker errors on ARM:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.ARM.exidx.text.exit':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.fini_array.00100':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

And related errors on NDS32:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.dtors.65435':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

The gcov compiler flags cause certain compiler versions to generate
additional destructor-related sections that are not yet handled by the
linker script, resulting in references between discarded and
non-discarded sections.

Since destructors are not used in the Linux kernel, fix this by
discarding these additional sections.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y causes linker errors on ARM:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.ARM.exidx.text.exit':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.fini_array.00100':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

And related errors on NDS32:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.dtors.65435':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

The gcov compiler flags cause certain compiler versions to generate
additional destructor-related sections that are not yet handled by the
linker script, resulting in references between discarded and
non-discarded sections.

Since destructors are not used in the Linux kernel, fix this by
discarding these additional sections.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale &lt;linux/export.h&gt; include</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-20T15:06:24+00:00</published>
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This is unneeded since commit a62143850053 ("vmlinux.lds.h: remove
no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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This is unneeded since commit a62143850053 ("vmlinux.lds.h: remove
no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE</title>
<updated>2018-07-10T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-09T15:41:52+00:00</published>
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Now that we use the driver core to stop deferred probe for missing
drivers, IOMMU_OF_DECLARE can be removed.

This is slightly less optimal than having a list of built-in drivers in
that we'll now defer probe twice before giving up. This shouldn't have a
significant impact on boot times as past discussions about deferred
probe have given no evidence of deferred probe having a substantial
impact.

Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kukjin Kim &lt;kgene@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Stuebner &lt;heiko@sntech.de&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Now that we use the driver core to stop deferred probe for missing
drivers, IOMMU_OF_DECLARE can be removed.

This is slightly less optimal than having a list of built-in drivers in
that we'll now defer probe twice before giving up. This shouldn't have a
significant impact on boot times as past discussions about deferred
probe have given no evidence of deferred probe having a substantial
impact.

Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kukjin Kim &lt;kgene@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Stuebner &lt;heiko@sntech.de&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T13:45:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T12:59:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=266ff2a8f51f02b429a987d87634697eb0d01d6a'/>
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<content type='text'>
KEEP more tables, and add the function/data section wildcard to more
section selections.

This is a little ad-hoc at the moment, but kernel code should be moved
to consistently use .text..x (note: double dots) for explicit sections
and all references to it in the linker script can be made with
TEXT_MAIN, and similarly for other sections.

For now, let's see if major architectures move to enabling this option
then we can do some refactoring passes. Otherwise if it remains unused
or superseded by LTO, this may not be required.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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KEEP more tables, and add the function/data section wildcard to more
section selections.

This is a little ad-hoc at the moment, but kernel code should be moved
to consistently use .text..x (note: double dots) for explicit sections
and all references to it in the linker script can be made with
TEXT_MAIN, and similarly for other sections.

For now, let's see if major architectures move to enabling this option
then we can do some refactoring passes. Otherwise if it remains unused
or superseded by LTO, this may not be required.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T13:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T07:23:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a6214385005333202c8cc1744c7075a9e1a26b9a'/>
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Now that VMLINUX_SYMBOL() is no-op, clean up the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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Now that VMLINUX_SYMBOL() is no-op, clean up the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix __earlycon_table stride</title>
<updated>2018-04-23T08:06:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kurtz</name>
<email>djkurtz@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-06T23:21:53+00:00</published>
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Commit 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride") tried to fix
__earlycon_table stride by forcing the earlycon_id struct alignment to 32
and asking the linker to 32-byte align the __earlycon_table symbol.  This
fix was based on commit 07fca0e57fca92 ("tracing: Properly align linker
defined symbols") which tried a similar fix for the tracing subsystem.

However, this fix doesn't quite work because there is no guarantee that
gcc will place structures packed into an array format.  In fact, gcc 4.9
chooses to 64-byte align these structs by inserting additional padding
between the entries because it has no clue that they are supposed to be in
an array.  If we are unlucky, the linker will assign symbol
"__earlycon_table" to a 32-byte aligned address which does not correspond
to the 64-byte aligned contents of section "__earlycon_table".

To address this same problem, the fix to the tracing system was
subsequently re-implemented using a more robust table of pointers approach
by commits:
 3d56e331b653 ("tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array")
 654986462939 ("tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array")
 e4a9ea5ee7c8 ("tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array")

Let's use this same "array of pointers to structs" approach for
EARLYCON_TABLE.

Fixes: 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride") tried to fix
__earlycon_table stride by forcing the earlycon_id struct alignment to 32
and asking the linker to 32-byte align the __earlycon_table symbol.  This
fix was based on commit 07fca0e57fca92 ("tracing: Properly align linker
defined symbols") which tried a similar fix for the tracing subsystem.

However, this fix doesn't quite work because there is no guarantee that
gcc will place structures packed into an array format.  In fact, gcc 4.9
chooses to 64-byte align these structs by inserting additional padding
between the entries because it has no clue that they are supposed to be in
an array.  If we are unlucky, the linker will assign symbol
"__earlycon_table" to a 32-byte aligned address which does not correspond
to the 64-byte aligned contents of section "__earlycon_table".

To address this same problem, the fix to the tracing system was
subsequently re-implemented using a more robust table of pointers approach
by commits:
 3d56e331b653 ("tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array")
 654986462939 ("tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array")
 e4a9ea5ee7c8 ("tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array")

Let's use this same "array of pointers to structs" approach for
EARLYCON_TABLE.

Fixes: 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-04-04T23:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-04-04T23:01:43+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
  tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
  pieces are:

   - Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
     that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system

   - Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
     elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
     instructions

   - Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
     codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
     which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
     mapped as executable

   - Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
     well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
     and made consistent between different fault types

   - More siginfo cleanup based on the initial patches from Eric
     Biederman

   - Workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1024718

   - Some small ACPI IORT updates and cleanups from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
  arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist
  arm64: fpsimd: Split cpu field out from struct fpsimd_state
  arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include linux/compiler.h in asm/cmpxchg.h
  arm64: move percpu cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h to percpu.h
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include build_bug.h instead of bug.h for BUILD_BUG
  arm64: lse: Include compiler_types.h and export.h for out-of-line LL/SC
  arm64: fpsimd: include &lt;linux/init.h&gt; in fpsimd.h
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu_platform: do not warn about affinity on uniprocessor
  perf: arm_spe: include linux/vmalloc.h for vmap()
  Revert "arm64: Revert L1_CACHE_SHIFT back to 6 (64-byte cache line size)"
  arm64: cpufeature: Avoid warnings due to unused symbols
  arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718
  arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature
  arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
  arm64: capabilities: Handle shared entries
  arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
  arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
  arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
  arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
  tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
  pieces are:

   - Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
     that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system

   - Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
     elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
     instructions

   - Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
     codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
     which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
     mapped as executable

   - Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
     well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
     and made consistent between different fault types

   - More siginfo cleanup based on the initial patches from Eric
     Biederman

   - Workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1024718

   - Some small ACPI IORT updates and cleanups from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
  arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist
  arm64: fpsimd: Split cpu field out from struct fpsimd_state
  arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include linux/compiler.h in asm/cmpxchg.h
  arm64: move percpu cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h to percpu.h
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include build_bug.h instead of bug.h for BUILD_BUG
  arm64: lse: Include compiler_types.h and export.h for out-of-line LL/SC
  arm64: fpsimd: include &lt;linux/init.h&gt; in fpsimd.h
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu_platform: do not warn about affinity on uniprocessor
  perf: arm_spe: include linux/vmalloc.h for vmap()
  Revert "arm64: Revert L1_CACHE_SHIFT back to 6 (64-byte cache line size)"
  arm64: cpufeature: Avoid warnings due to unused symbols
  arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718
  arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature
  arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
  arm64: capabilities: Handle shared entries
  arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
  arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
  arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
  arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature
  ...
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