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authorMichael Neuling2013-12-16 15:12:43 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt2013-12-30 14:02:28 +1100
commit90ff5d688e61f49f23545ffab6228bd7e87e6dc7 (patch)
tree8d1788a6a1b88190379926ce726bc6867ad98dd2 /Documentation
parent803c2d2f84da9dc2619449994af34d27148ab20d (diff)
powerpc: Fix bad stack check in exception entry
In EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON() we check to see if the stack pointer (r1) is valid when coming from the kernel. If it's not valid, we die but with a nice oops message. Currently we allocate a stack frame (subtract INT_FRAME_SIZE) before we check to see if the stack pointer is negative. Unfortunately, this won't detect a bad stack where r1 is less than INT_FRAME_SIZE. This patch fixes the check to compare the modified r1 with -INT_FRAME_SIZE. With this, bad kernel stack pointers (including NULL pointers) are correctly detected again. Kudos to Paulus for finding this. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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