s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils

Overview

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils

Commit a737737cdb9c ("s390/percpu: Infrastructure for more efficient this_cpu operations") introduced MVIY_PERCPU(), which stringifies arguments that are already C string literals. This generates an assembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments:

GEN_MVIY "459712" "%r3"

GNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace between quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They consequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit repeated warnings:

Warning: missing closing `"'

The .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully without emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted per-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return path cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration.

All MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly and separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The resulting invocation is:

GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3

This form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler. This behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux supports binutils 2.30.

Affected

• Linux >= a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709 < 91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf
• Linux >= a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709 < 101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a
• Linux 7.2

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

Vendor advisories

• Red Hat VEX · Moderate · updated 2026-09-15 · vex