[ubuntu/xenial-security] gcc-5 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9 (Accepted)

Łukasz Zemczak lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com
Tue Feb 20 18:25:22 UTC 2018


gcc-5 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * Revert retpoline changes of ppc64el as per the recommendation from
    Bill Schmidt of IBM.
    - ppc-add-mspeculate-indirect-jumps: drop.

gcc-5 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.8) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * Add retpoline support for x86 via adding -mindirect-branch=,
    -mindirect-branch-register, and -mfunction-return= support
    - 0001-i386-Move-struct-ix86_frame-to-machine_function.diff,
      0002-i386-Use-reference-of-struct-ix86_frame-to-avoid-cop.diff,
      0003-i386-More-use-reference-of-struct-ix86_frame-to-avoi.diff,
      0004-i386-Don-t-use-reference-of-struct-ix86_frame.diff,
      0005-x86-Add-mindirect-branch.diff,
      0006-x86-Add-mfunction-return.diff,
      0007-x86-Add-mindirect-branch-register.diff,
      0008-x86-Add-V-register-operand-modifier.diff,
      0009-x86-Disallow-mindirect-branch-mfunction-return-with-.patch:
      implement -mindirect-branch=<keep|thunk|thunk-inline|thunk-extern>
      with attribute support, -mindirect-branch-register, and
      -mfunction-return=<thunk|thunk-inline|thunk-extern> with
      attribute support. Thanks to H.J. Lu.
  * Add retpoline support for ppc64 via adding
    -mspeculate-indirect-jumps support
    - ppc-add-mspeculate-indirect-jumps: implement
      -mspeculate-indirect-jumps. Thanks to Bill Schmidt.

gcc-5 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.6) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Add thunderx2 support. LP: #1727540.

gcc-5 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU
  * Fix PR target/77267 (x86), taken from the trunk. LP: #1623418.
  * Fix hangs w/ asan binaries on arm64 (Dann Frazier). LP: #1709727.
  * Linaro branch only: Fix PR target/79041, aarch64 backend emitting
    R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 relocation despite -mpc-relative-literal-loads
    option being used (Dan Frazier). LP: #1695093.

Date: 2018-02-06 00:32:26.974203+00:00
Changed-By: Steve Beattie <sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
Signed-By: Łukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-5/5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9
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