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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:08:31 +0000 (16:08 -0700)
commit65ddee385ba4ba923eeb64182963815dc24f7bc1
treec2c7d699ade3796a35b451ee91425a62593c68c8
parent470d4d6fe7349299ed565948e539260c4d0d041c
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>
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