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

[PATCH] sparc64: repair calling incorrect hweight function from stubs

to the 4.14-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: sparc64-repair-calling-incorrect-hweight-function-from-stubs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Mon Jan 1 11:05:39 CET 2018

From: Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 03:43:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sparc64: repair calling incorrect hweight function from stubs

From: Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de

[ Upstream commit 59585b4be9ae4dc6506551709bdcd6f5210b8a01 ]

Commit v4.12-rc4-1-g9289ea7f952b introduced a mistake that made the 64-bit hweight stub call the 16-bit hweight function.

Fixes: 9289ea7f952b ("sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs") Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S +++ b/arch/sparc/lib/hweight.S @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_hweight32) .previous

ENTRY(__arch_hweight64) - sethi %hi(__sw_hweight16), %g1 - jmpl %g1 + %lo(__sw_hweight16), %g0 + sethi %hi(__sw_hweight64), %g1 + jmpl %g1 + %lo(__sw_hweight64), %g0 nop ENDPROC(__arch_hweight64) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_hweight64)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jengelh@inai.de are

queue-4.14/sparc64-repair-calling-incorrect-hweight-function-from-stubs.patch