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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:51:08 +0000 (14:51 -0700)
commita821af3f7d73022d45550200241e6e671127ec81
treedfad9bac9ac5fdc89a0dd2396388e6584aa331ce
parent46779b3c9f75cb80573a1ceb82b16b831bfb349c
powerpc: Fix parameter clobber in csum_partial_copy_generic()

commit d9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_64.S