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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:37:37 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.6 33/56] powerpc/bpf/jit: Disable classic BPF JIT on ppc64le

4.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 844e3be47693f92a108cb1fb3b0606bf25e9c7a6 upstream.

Classic BPF JIT was never ported completely to work on little endian
powerpc. However, it can be enabled and will crash the system when used.
As such, disable use of BPF JIT on ppc64le.

Fixes: 7c105b63bd98 ("powerpc: Add CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN kernel config option.")
Reported-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>


---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ config PPC
 	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
-	select HAVE_BPF_JIT
+	select HAVE_BPF_JIT if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL


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