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powerpc: Fix parameter clobber in csum_partial_copy_generic()
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:54:05 +0000 (16:54 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:22:36 +0000 (17:22 +1000)
commitd9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756
tree8aaf4c7d3f7c9984084e00476bd7d61c6230405f
parentf7e3334a6bcb42e7295a9bd9cb36ca4e6e4e66b4
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>
arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S