[PATCH 1/3] arm: hyp: fix macro parameterisation

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Tue Jul 9 12:29:56 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:16:04PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently, compare_cpu_mode_with_primary uses a mixture of macro
> arguments and hardcoded registers, and does so incorrectly, as it
> stores (__boot_cpu_mode_offset | BOOT_CPU_MODE_MISMATCH) to
> (__boot_cpu_mode + &__boot_cpu_mode_offset), which could corrupt an
> arbitrary portion of memory.
> 
> This patch fixes up compare_cpu_mode_with_primary to use the macro
> arguments, correctly updating __boot_cpu_mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>

May bad originally my the looks of it.  Thanks for spotting this.

Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S b/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> index 1315c4c..bda76ce 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ ENTRY(__boot_cpu_mode)
>  	ldr	\reg3, [\reg2]
>  	ldr	\reg1, [\reg2, \reg3]
>  	cmp	\mode, \reg1		@ matches primary CPU boot mode?
> -	orrne	r7, r7, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_MISMATCH
> -	strne	r7, [r5, r6]		@ record what happened and give up
> +	orrne	\reg1, \reg1, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_MISMATCH
> +	strne	\reg1, [\reg2, \reg3]	@ record what happened and give up
>  	.endm
>  
>  #else	/* ZIMAGE */
> -- 
> 1.8.1.1
> 
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