From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 03:24:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: MIPS: Disable stack checks on MIPS kernels
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MIPS: Disable stack checks on MIPS kernels

Disable stack checking on MIPS kernels.  Some distribution toolchains
might pass the -fstack-check option to gcc.  This results in a
store-doubleword instruction being emitted at the top of all
functions that checks the available stack space.  E.g.,

  a80000000001d740 <per_cpu_init>:
  a80000000001d740:       ffa0bfc0        sd      zero,-16448(sp)
  a80000000001d744:       2405ffc9        li      a1,-55
  a80000000001d748:       67bdffc0        daddiu  sp,sp,-64

Generally, this is undesirable, and especially on the SGI IP27
platform, it will trigger a NULL pointer dereference in
'_raw_spin_lock_irq' during early init.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Suggested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15132/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 6ea306b28ae9..8ef9c02747fa 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -131,6 +131,21 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.
 
 cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS)	+= $(call cc-option,-mno-sched-prolog) \
 				   -fno-omit-frame-pointer
+
+# Some distribution-specific toolchains might pass the -fstack-check
+# option during the build, which adds a simple stack-probe at the beginning
+# of every function.  This stack probe is to ensure that there is enough
+# stack space, else a SEGV is generated.  This is not desirable for MIPS
+# as kernel stacks are small, placed in unmapped virtual memory, and do not
+# grow when overflowed.  Especially on SGI IP27 platforms, this check will
+# lead to a NULL pointer dereference in _raw_spin_lock_irq.
+#
+# In disassembly, this stack probe appears at the top of a function as:
+#    sd		zero,<offset>(sp)
+# Where <offset> is a negative value.
+#
+cflags-y += -fno-stack-check
+
 #
 # CPU-dependent compiler/assembler options for optimization.
 #