Patch "x86/boot: Declare error() as noreturn" 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

x86/boot: Declare error() as noreturn

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:
x86-boot-declare-error-as-noreturn.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: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 21:51:16 -0700
Subject: x86/boot: Declare error() as noreturn

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 60854a12d281e2fa25662fa32ac8022bbff17432 ]

The compressed boot function error() is used to halt execution, but it wasn't marked with "noreturn". This fixes that in preparation for supporting kernel FORTIFY_SOURCE, which uses the noreturn annotation on panic, and calls error(). GCC would warn about a noreturn function calling a non-noreturn function:

arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c: In function ‘fortify_panic’:
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c:416:1: warning: ‘noreturn’ function does return
}
^

---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/error.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef BOOT_COMPRESSED_ERROR_H
 #define BOOT_COMPRESSED_ERROR_H
 
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
 void warn(char *m);
-void error(char *m);
+void error(char *m) __noreturn;
 
 #endif /* BOOT_COMPRESSED_ERROR_H */

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

queue-4.9/qlge-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch queue-4.9/pidns-disable-pid-allocation-if-pid_ns_prepare_proc-is-failed-in-alloc_pid.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-kaslr-use-the-_asm_mul-macro-for-multiplication-to-work-around-clang-incompatibility.patch queue-4.9/ray_cs-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch queue-4.9/x86-boot-declare-error-as-noreturn.patch queue-4.9/selftests-kselftest_harness-fix-compile-warning.patch queue-4.9/bna-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch