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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-10-01 16:54:05 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-10-03 17:22:36 +1000 |
| commit | d9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756 (patch) | |
| tree | 8aaf4c7d3f7c9984084e00476bd7d61c6230405f /arch | |
| parent | f7e3334a6bcb42e7295a9bd9cb36ca4e6e4e66b4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756.tar.bz2 | |
powerpc: Fix parameter clobber in csum_partial_copy_generic()
The csum_partial_copy_generic() uses register r7 to adjust the remaining
bytes to process. Unfortunately, r7 also holds a parameter, namely the
address of the flag to set in case of access exceptions while reading
the source buffer. Lacking a quantum implementation of PowerPC, this
commit instead uses register r9 to do the adjusting, leaving r7's
pointer uncorrupted.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S b/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S index 167f72555d60..609665aede75 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S @@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ _GLOBAL(csum_partial_copy_generic) rldicl. r6,r3,64-1,64-2 /* r6 = (r3 & 0x3) >> 1 */ beq .Lcopy_aligned - li r7,4 - sub r6,r7,r6 + li r9,4 + sub r6,r9,r6 mtctr r6 1: |