From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:54:05 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: powerpc: Fix parameter clobber in csum_partial_copy_generic()
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.52~54
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13ce0c4a399a654effc40a9a57e87ac23cf19267;p=pandora-kernel.git

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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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