FAILED: patch "[PATCH] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Date: 2021-01-17 14:23:57
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to [off-list ref].

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From dca5244d2f5b94f1809f0c02a549edf41ccd5493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:48:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

GCC versions >= 4.9 and < 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references
beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt
is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the
reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data
corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the
link below.

Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version
required by arm64 to 5.1.

Reported-by: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Florian Weimer <redacted>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk (local)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.org (local)
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 74c6c0486eed..555ab0fddbef 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 /* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 */
 #if GCC_VERSION < 40900
 # error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer.
+#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64) && GCC_VERSION < 50100
+/*
+ * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63293
+ * https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107111841.GN1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
+ */
+# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 5.1 or newer.
 #endif
 
 /*
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