Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

Larry Finger
2011-01-06T13:55:59Z

On 01/06/2011 07:35 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>>
>> The patch helps. No crashes, meaningful random data - perfect.
>> I still have 2 small annotations...
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
>> 1. Having ECX on the clobber-list is not really necessary.
>> XSTORE doesn't touch ECX at all.
>> REP XSTORE would touch it, but for this ECX would be an input anyways.
>
> The documentation wasn't clear whether ECX would be updated without
> the REP prefix so I included it to be on the safe side. Unfortunately
> my only VIA machine is on another continent at the moment so I can't
> test it myself. Can you verify that ECX isn't changed without the
> REP prefix?
>
>> 2. Would you mind doing the same for EDX as you did for EDI?
>> This doesn't really change anything currently, but will probably help
>> avoiding a debug-session like ours somewhere in the future :)
>
> According to my documentation EDX isn't be modified (nor would it
> make sense as it would break REP XSTORE). Are you seeing anything
> different?

As an interested observer, I think this routine needs some really detailed comments.

Larry