Re: [PATCH] arm: Blacklist gcc 4.8.[012] and 4.9.0 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Fri Oct 10 2014 - 12:36:31 EST


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:26:14PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> gcc versions 4.8.[012] and 4.9.0 generates code that prematurely
> adjusts the stack pointer such that still-to-be-referenced locals
> are below the stack pointer, which allows them to be overwritten
> by interrupts.

I would much rather do this in asm-offsets.c, along side the other ARM
specific buggy compiler test(s). I'm presently putting together such
a patch.

The information in the thread on linux-omap says only GCC 4.8.1 and
GCC 4.8.2. Where do you get the other versions from?

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