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Ivan Kokshaysky ab4f7b1d95 alpha: make stack 16-byte aligned (most cases)
commit 0a0f7362b0367634a2d5cb7c96226afc116f19c9 upstream.

The problem is that GCC expects 16-byte alignment of the incoming stack
since early 2004, as Maciej found out [1]:
  Having actually dug speculatively I can see that the psABI was changed in
 GCC 3.5 with commit e5e10fb4a350 ("re PR target/14539 (128-bit long double
 improperly aligned)") back in Mar 2004, when the stack pointer alignment
 was increased from 8 bytes to 16 bytes, and arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S has
 various suspicious stack pointer adjustments, starting with SP_OFF which
 is not a whole multiple of 16.

Also, as Magnus noted, "ALPHA Calling Standard" [2] required the same:
 D.3.1 Stack Alignment
  This standard requires that stacks be octaword aligned at the time a
  new procedure is invoked.

However:
- the "normal" kernel stack is always misaligned by 8 bytes, thanks to
  the odd number of 64-bit words in 'struct pt_regs', which is the very
  first thing pushed onto the kernel thread stack;
- syscall, fault, interrupt etc. handlers may, or may not, receive aligned
  stack depending on numerous factors.

Somehow we got away with it until recently, when we ended up with
a stack corruption in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_single() due to
its use of 32-byte aligned local data and the compiler doing clever
things allocating it on the stack.

This adds padding between the PAL-saved and kernel-saved registers
so that 'struct pt_regs' have an even number of 64-bit words.
This makes the stack properly aligned for most of the kernel
code, except two handlers which need special threatment.

Note: struct pt_regs doesn't belong in uapi/asm; this should be fixed,
but let's put this off until later.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/alpine.DEB.2.21.2501130248010.18889@angie.orcam.me.uk/ [1]
Link: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/alpha/Alpha_Calling_Standard_Rev_2.0_19900427.pdf [2]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@unseen.parts>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-03-13 12:43:16 +01:00
arch alpha: make stack 16-byte aligned (most cases) 2025-03-13 12:43:16 +01:00
block partitions: ldm: remove the initial kernel-doc notation 2025-03-13 12:42:52 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Call crypto layer directly when padata_do_parallel() return -EBUSY 2024-12-14 19:44:23 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: mmc: controller: clarify the address-cells description 2025-03-13 12:42:53 +01:00
drivers can: c_can: fix unbalanced runtime PM disable in error path 2025-03-13 12:43:16 +01:00
fs orangefs: fix a oob in orangefs_debug_write 2025-03-13 12:43:13 +01:00
include vrf: use RCU protection in l3mdev_l3_out() 2025-03-13 12:43:12 +01:00
init initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun 2024-12-14 19:44:21 +01:00
ipc
kernel tasklet: Introduce new initialization API 2025-03-13 12:43:04 +01:00
lib lib: string_helpers: silence snprintf() output truncation warning 2024-12-14 19:44:39 +01:00
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net can: j1939: j1939_sk_send_loop(): fix unable to send messages with data length zero 2025-03-13 12:43:16 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix a resource leak 2024-12-14 19:44:50 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Move -Wenum-enum-conversion to W=2 2025-03-13 12:43:09 +01:00
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tools perf bench: Fix undefined behavior in cmpworker() 2025-03-13 12:43:08 +01:00
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