Patch "asm-prototypes: Clear any CPP defines before declaring the functions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

asm-prototypes: Clear any CPP defines before declaring the functions

to the 4.9-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:
asm-prototypes-clear-any-cpp-defines-before-declaring-the-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 13:49:42 +0100
Subject: asm-prototypes: Clear any CPP defines before declaring the functions
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From: Michal Marek <[email protected]>

commit c7858bf16c0b2cc62f475f31e6df28c3a68da1d6 upstream.

The asm-prototypes.h file is used to provide dummy function declarations for genksyms, when processing asm files with EXPORT_SYMBOL. Make sure that any architecture defines get out of our way. x86 currently has an issue with memcpy on 64bit with CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=y and with memset/__memset on 32bit:

	$ cat init/test.c
	#include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
	$ make -s init/test.o
	In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:4:0,
			 from ./include/linux/string.h:18,
			 from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:8,
			 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:11,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:4,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:10,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:20,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:4,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:52,
			 from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:25,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:6,
			 from ./include/linux/preempt.h:59,
			 from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
			 from ./include/linux/seqlock.h:35,
			 from ./include/linux/time.h:5,
			 from ./include/uapi/linux/timex.h:56,
			 from ./include/linux/timex.h:56,
			 from ./include/linux/sched.h:19,
			 from ./include/linux/uaccess.h:4,
			 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h:2,
			 from init/test.c:1:
	./arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h:52:47: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
	 #define memcpy(dst, src, len) __inline_memcpy((dst), (src), (len))
	 ./include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h:6:14: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
	  extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);

						       ^
	...

During real build, this manifests itself by genksyms segfaulting.

---
 include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
+#undef __memset
 extern void *__memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
+#undef __memcpy
 extern void *__memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+#undef __memmove
 extern void *__memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+#undef memset
 extern void *memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
+#undef memcpy
 extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+#undef memmove
 extern void *memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);

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

queue-4.9/asm-prototypes-clear-any-cpp-defines-before-declaring-the-functions.patch