Patch "xtensa: fix kernel register spilling" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

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

xtensa: fix kernel register spilling

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
xtensa-fix-kernel-register-spilling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:41:02 +0300
Subject: xtensa: fix kernel register spilling

From: Max Filippov <[email protected]>

commit 77d6273e79e3a86552fcf10cdd31a69b46ed2ce6 upstream.

call12 can't be safely used as the first call in the inline function, because the compiler does not extend the stack frame of the bounding function accordingly, which may result in corruption of local variables.

If a call needs to be done, do call8 first followed by call12.

For pure assembly code in _switch_to increase stack frame size of the bounding function.

---
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/traps.h |   29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S      |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

@@ -25,30 +25,39 @@ static inline void spill_registers(void)
 {
 #if XCHAL_NUM_AREGS > 16
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"	call12	1f\n"
+		"	call8	1f\n"
 		"	_j	2f\n"
 		"	retw\n"
 		"	.align	4\n"
 		"1:\n"
+#if XCHAL_NUM_AREGS == 32
+		"	_entry	a1, 32\n"
+		"	addi	a8, a0, 3\n"
+		"	_entry	a1, 16\n"
+		"	mov	a12, a12\n"
+		"	retw\n"
+#else
 		"	_entry	a1, 48\n"
-		"	addi	a12, a0, 3\n"
-#if XCHAL_NUM_AREGS > 32
-		"	.rept	(" __stringify(XCHAL_NUM_AREGS) " - 32) / 12\n"
+		"	call12	1f\n"
+		"	retw\n"
+		"	.align	4\n"
+		"1:\n"
+		"	.rept	(" __stringify(XCHAL_NUM_AREGS) " - 16) / 12\n"
 		"	_entry	a1, 48\n"
 		"	mov	a12, a0\n"
 		"	.endr\n"
-#endif
-		"	_entry	a1, 48\n"
+		"	_entry	a1, 16\n"
 #if XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 0
-		"	mov	a8, a8\n"
-#elif XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 4
 		"	mov	a12, a12\n"
-#elif XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 8
+#elif XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 4
 		"	mov	a4, a4\n"
+#elif XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 8
+		"	mov	a8, a8\n"
 #endif
 		"	retw\n"
+#endif
 		"2:\n"
-		: : : "a12", "a13", "memory");
+		: : : "a8", "a9", "memory");
 #else
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
 		"	mov	a12, a12\n"

@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ ENDPROC(system_call)
 	mov	a12, a0
 	.endr
 #endif
-	_entry	a1, 48
+	_entry	a1, 16
 #if XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 0
 	mov	a8, a8
 #elif XCHAL_NUM_AREGS % 12 == 4

@@ -1845,7 +1845,7 @@ ENDPROC(system_call)
 
 ENTRY(_switch_to)
 
-	entry	a1, 16
+	entry	a1, 48
 
 	mov	a11, a3			# and 'next' (a3)
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/xtensa-fix-kernel-register-spilling.patch queue-4.2/xtensa-fix-threadptr-reload-on-return-to-userspace.patch