[ARM] 5416/1: Use unused address in v6_early_abort
authorSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@gmail.com>
Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:39:36 +0000 (22:39 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:11:25 +0000 (12:11 +0000)
The target of the strex instruction to clear the exlusive monitor
is currently the top of the stack.  If the store succeeeds this
corrupts r0 in pt_regs.  Use the next stack location instead of
the current one to prevent any chance of corrupting an in-use
address.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/abort-ev6.S

index 8a7f65ba14b761cb81ceaa87689f1f0d9a91ed3f..94077fbd96b7691850275d71114eb2b9d328f5d3 100644 (file)
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ ENTRY(v6_early_abort)
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_32v6K
        clrex
 #else
-       strex   r0, r1, [sp]                    @ Clear the exclusive monitor
+       sub     r1, sp, #4                      @ Get unused stack location
+       strex   r0, r1, [r1]                    @ Clear the exclusive monitor
 #endif
        mrc     p15, 0, r1, c5, c0, 0           @ get FSR
        mrc     p15, 0, r0, c6, c0, 0           @ get FAR