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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] stop infinite loop in start_ldr due to unaligned sections
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:57:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061020135715.GA7197@aepfle.de> (raw)


Quick fix for lack of memset(__bss_start,0,_end-__bss_start) in load_kernel()
If edata is unaligned, the loop will overwrite all memory because
r3 and r4 will never be equal.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

---
 arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.S |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc2/arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc2.orig/arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.S
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc2/arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.S
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ do_relocate_out:
 
 start_ldr:
 /* Clear all of BSS and set up stack for C calls */
-	lis	r3,edata@h
-	ori	r3,r3,edata@l
+	lis	r3,__bss_start@h
+	ori	r3,r3,__bss_start@l
 	lis	r4,end@h
 	ori	r4,r4,end@l
 	subi	r3,r3,4
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ start_ldr:
 	li	r0,0
 50:	stwu	r0,4(r3)
 	cmpw	cr0,r3,r4
-	bne	50b
+	blt	50b
 90:	mr	r9,r1		/* Save old stack pointer (in case it matters) */
 	lis	r1,.stack@h
 	ori	r1,r1,.stack@l

                 reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 14:10 UTC|newest]

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