Commit dca5244d authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas

compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

GCC versions >= 4.9 and < 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references
beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt
is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the
reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data
corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the
link below.

Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version
required by arm64 to 5.1.
Reported-by: default avatarRussell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent c35a824c
......@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 */
#if GCC_VERSION < 40900
# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer.
#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && GCC_VERSION < 50100
/*
* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63293
* https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107111841.GN1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
*/
# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 5.1 or newer.
#endif
/*
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment