kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/boot, branch v6.6.155

powerpc/boot: Fix treeboot-akebono CPU node lookup check

2026-08-09T18:21:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit b24fc8278b70a9d27ec801a427ab4de9b769d69a ] fdt_node_offset_by_prop_value() returns a negative error code on failure - fix the check accordingly. Fixes: 2a2c74b2efcb ("IBM Akebono: Add the Akebono platform") Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702211554.56923-6-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Fix treeboot-currituck CPU node lookup check

2026-08-09T18:21:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit 43863f6575d2211e8c5157fefb83ad0ad046aab4 ] fdt_node_offset_by_prop_value() returns a negative error code on failure - fix the check accordingly. Fixes: 228d55053397 ("powerpc/47x: Add support for the new IBM currituck platform") Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702211554.56923-5-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Fix simpleboot CPU node lookup check

2026-08-09T18:21:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit c824ab65685bb119c6c6a3a200b3428c72862d5a ] fdt_node_offset_by_prop_value() returns a negative error code on failure - fix the check accordingly. Fixes: d2477b5cc8ca ("[POWERPC] bootwrapper: Add a firmware-independent simpleboot target.") Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702211554.56923-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/addnote: Fix overflow on 32-bit builds

2026-01-11T14:21:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit 825ce89a3ef17f84cf2c0eacfa6b8dc9fd11d13f ] The PUT_64[LB]E() macros need to cast the value to unsigned long long like the GET_64[LB]E() macros. Caused lots of warnings when compiled on 32-bit, and clobbered addresses (36-bit P4080). Signed-off-by: Ben Collins Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2025042122-mustard-wrasse-694572@boujee-and-buff Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Fix build with gcc 15

2025-08-28T14:28:46+00:00

commit 5a821e2d69e26b51b7f3740b6b0c3462b8cacaff upstream. Similar to x86 the ppc boot code does not build with GCC 15. Copy the fix from commit ee2ab467bddf ("x86/boot: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15") Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek Tested-by: Amit Machhiwal Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250331105722.19709-1-msuchanek@suse.de Cc: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/boot: Fix dash warning

2025-05-09T07:43:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit e3f506b78d921e48a00d005bea5c45ec36a99240 ] 'commit b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support")' suppressed linker warnings, but the expressed used did not go well with POSIX shell (dash) resulting with this warning arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: 237: [: 0: unexpected operator ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Fix the check to handle the reported warning. Patch also fixes couple of shellcheck reported errors for the same line. In arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper line 237: if [ $(${CROSS}ld -v --no-warn-rwx-segments &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]; then ^-- SC2046 (warning): Quote this to prevent word splitting. ^------^ SC2086 (info): Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. ^---------^ SC3020 (warning): In POSIX sh, &> is undefined. Fixes: b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423082154.30625-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support

2025-05-09T07:43:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit b2accfe7ca5bc9f9af28e603b79bdd5ad8df5c0b ] Commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") enabled support to add linker option "--no-warn-rwx-segments", if the version is greater than 2.39. Similar build warning were reported recently from linker version 2.35.2. ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Fix the warning by checking for "--no-warn-rwx-segments" option support in linker to enable it, instead of checking for the version range. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/61cf556c-4947-4bd6-af63-892fc0966dad@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401004218.24869-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Only free if realloc() succeeds

2024-08-29T15:33:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit f2d5bccaca3e8c09c9b9c8485375f7bdbb2631d2 ] simple_realloc() frees the original buffer (ptr) even if the reallocation failed. Fix it to behave like standard realloc() and only free the original buffer if the reallocation succeeded. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20240229115149.749264-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Handle allocation failure in simple_realloc()

2024-08-29T15:33:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 69b0194ccec033c208b071e019032c1919c2822d ] simple_malloc() will return NULL when there is not enough memory left. Check pointer 'new' before using it to copy the old data. Signed-off-by: Li zeming [mpe: Reword subject, use change log from Christophe] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20221219021816.3012-1-zeming@nfschina.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc: dts: add missing space before {

2023-08-24T22:39:30+00:00

Add missing whitespace between node name/label and opening {. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20230705145743.292855-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org