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    powerpc/64s: Disable stack variable initialisation for prom_init · be640317
    Michael Ellerman authored
    With GCC 12 allmodconfig prom_init fails to build:
    
      Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c
      make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:204: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1
    
    The allmodconfig build enables KASAN, so all calls to memset in
    prom_init should be converted to __memset by the #ifdefs in
    asm/string.h, because prom_init must use the non-KASAN instrumented
    versions.
    
    The build failure happens because there's a call to memset that hasn't
    been caught by the pre-processor and converted to __memset. Typically
    that's because it's a memset generated by the compiler itself, and that
    is the case here.
    
    With GCC 12, allmodconfig enables CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, which
    causes the compiler to emit memset calls to initialise on-stack
    variables with a pattern.
    
    Because prom_init is non-user-facing boot-time only code, as a
    workaround just disable stack variable initialisation to unbreak the
    build.
    Reported-by: default avatarSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220718134418.354114-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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