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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2-mm1] Fix fake return address
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:21:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45358FB2.5000606@goop.org> (raw)

The fake return address was being set to __KERNEL_PDA, rather than 0.
Push it earlier while %eax still equals 0.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

diff -r b8e58159855c arch/i386/kernel/head.S
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S	Tue Oct 17 19:04:59 2006 -0700
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S	Tue Oct 17 19:05:46 2006 -0700
@@ -316,12 +316,12 @@ 1:	movl $(__KERNEL_DS),%eax	# reload all
 	xorl %eax,%eax			# Clear FS and LDT
 	movl %eax,%fs
 	lldt %ax
+	pushl %eax		# fake return address
 
 	movl $(__KERNEL_PDA),%eax
 	mov  %eax,%gs
 
 	cld			# gcc2 wants the direction flag cleared at all times
-	pushl %eax		# fake return address
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	movb ready, %cl
 	movb $1, ready




             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18  2:21 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-10-18 11:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2-mm1] Fix fake return address Andi Kleen

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