linux/arch/powerpc
Steffen Rumler 3c75296562 powerpc: Fix kernel panic during kernel module load
This fixes a problem which can causes kernel oopses while loading
a kernel module.

According to the PowerPC EABI specification, GPR r11 is assigned
the dedicated function to point to the previous stack frame.
In the powerpc-specific kernel module loader, do_plt_call()
(in arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c), GPR r11 is also used
to generate trampoline code.

This combination crashes the kernel, in the case where the compiler
chooses to use a helper function for saving GPRs on entry, and the
module loader has placed the .init.text section far away from the
.text section, meaning that it has to generate a trampoline for
functions in the .init.text section to call the GPR save helper.
Because the trampoline trashes r11, references to the stack frame
using r11 can cause an oops.

The fix just uses GPR r12 instead of GPR r11 for generating the
trampoline code.  According to the statements from Freescale, this is
safe from an EABI perspective.

I've tested the fix for kernel 2.6.33 on MPC8541.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steffen Rumler <steffen.rumler.ext@nsn.com>
[paulus@samba.org: reworded the description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2012-06-08 19:59:08 +10:00
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boot arm-soc: driver specific updates 2012-05-26 12:22:27 -07:00
configs Sound updates for 3.5-rc1 2012-05-23 13:05:43 -07:00
include/asm powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit 2012-06-02 10:44:11 -04:00
kernel powerpc: Fix kernel panic during kernel module load 2012-06-08 19:59:08 +10:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2012-05-24 16:17:30 -07:00
lib powerpc: Use the new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2012-05-27 21:00:07 -07:00
math-emu
mm powerpc: use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() 2012-05-31 17:49:29 -07:00
net
oprofile
perf
platforms avoid iput() from flusher thread 2012-05-28 09:54:45 -07:00
sysdev
xmon
Kconfig powerpc: Use the new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2012-05-27 21:00:07 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile powerpc/crypto: Build files for the nx device driver 2012-05-16 15:05:45 +10:00
relocs_check.pl