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

ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: arc-uaccess-dont-use-l-gcc-inline-asm-constraint-modifier.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 79435ac78d160e4c245544d457850a56f805ac0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:26:58 -0800 Subject: ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier

From: Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com

commit 79435ac78d160e4c245544d457850a56f805ac0d upstream.

This used to setup the LP_COUNT register automatically, but now has been removed.

There was an earlier fix 3c7c7a2fc8811 which fixed instance in delay.h but somehow missed this one as gcc change had not made its way into production toolchains and was not pedantic as it is now !

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -673,6 +673,7 @@ __arc_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const return 0;

__asm__ __volatile__( + " mov lp_count, %5 \n" " lp 3f \n" "1: ldb.ab %3, [%2, 1] \n" " breq.d %3, 0, 3f \n" @@ -689,8 +690,8 @@ __arc_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const " .word 1b, 4b \n" " .previous \n" : "+r"(res), "+r"(dst), "+r"(src), "=r"(val) - : "g"(-EFAULT), "l"(count) - : "memory"); + : "g"(-EFAULT), "r"(count) + : "lp_count", "lp_start", "lp_end", "memory");

return res; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vgupta@synopsys.com are

queue-4.4/arc-uaccess-dont-use-l-gcc-inline-asm-constraint-modifier.patch