linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 17/17] ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch

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Message-Id: <20190213213223.916-18-dave.long@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:32:23 -0500
From:   David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 17/17] ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Commit d6951f582cc50ba0ad22ef46b599740966599b14 upstream.

The intention in the previous patch was to only place the processor
tables in the .rodata section if big.Little was being built and we
wanted the branch target hardening, but instead (due to the way it
was tested) it ended up always placing the tables into the .rodata
section.

Although harmless, let's correct this anyway.

Fixes: 3a4d0c2172bc ("ARM: ensure that processor vtables is not lost after boot")
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
---
 arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index 19516fbc2c55..5461d589a1e2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
  * If we are building for big.Little with branch predictor hardening,
  * we need the processor function tables to remain available after boot.
  */
-#if 1 // defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+#if defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
 	.section ".rodata"
 #endif
 	.type	\name\()_processor_functions, #object
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ ENTRY(\name\()_processor_functions)
 	.endif
 
 	.size	\name\()_processor_functions, . - \name\()_processor_functions
-#if 1 // defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+#if defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
 	.previous
 #endif
 .endm
-- 
2.17.1