From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 21:44:36 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand , Cornelia Huck Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 15/50] s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask Message-ID: <20180512194436.GA22201@kroah.com> References: <20180427135655.623669681@linuxfoundation.org> <20180427135656.637526548@linuxfoundation.org> <20180504221808.GB24813@kroah.com> <20180507080707.2a41ae28@mschwideX1> <20180508072055.GD17166@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180508072055.GD17166@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:20:55AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 08:07:07AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > On Fri, 4 May 2018 15:18:08 -0700 > > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:37:20AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > On 04/27/2018, 03:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > > > > > From: Martin Schwidefsky > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [ Upstream commit cf1489984641369611556bf00c48f945c77bcf02 ] > > > > > > > > > > To be able to switch off specific CPU alternatives with kernel parameters > > > > > make a copy of the facility bit mask provided by STFLE and use the copy > > > > > for the decision to apply an alternative. > > > > ... > > > > > --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h > > > > > +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h > > > > > @@ -13,6 +13,24 @@ > > > > > > > > > > #define MAX_FACILITY_BIT (256*8) /* stfle_fac_list has 256 bytes */ > > > > > > > > I wonder if the below (plus __test_facility) is correct in 4.4, given > > > > MAX_FACILITY_BIT is defined as such and not as sizeof(stfle_fac_list * > > > > 8) as in upstream? > > > > > > I'm going to defer to Marin here, as he did the backport... > > > Martin? > > > > Good catch. With MAX_FACILITY_BIT == 2048 and the patch applied the result > > for a test_facility/__test_facility call with a facility number >= 1024 > > would give an incorrect result. Fortunately there are no such calls in > > the current 4.4 kernel source. And there are no facilities defined with > > bit numbers this large, so even out-of-tree code would not do this if > > it is sane. > > > > To correct this the MAX_FACILITY_BIT define needs to be reduced to 1024 > > which would require the patch pointed out be Heiko: > > > > commit 6f5165e864d240d15675cc2fb5a369d57e1f60d0 > > Author: Heiko Carstens > > Date: Mon Mar 20 14:29:50 2017 +0100 > > > > s390/facilites: use stfle_fac_list array size for MAX_FACILITY_BIT > > > > I would say yes, it *does* make sense to include this patch even if it > > does not fix anything. > > Ok, I've now queued this up for 4.4.y and 4.9.y, thanks! It breaks the build on 4.4.y, so I'm dropping it :( If you think it's needed there, a working version would be nice :) thanks, greg k-h