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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-10-23 00:53:30 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-10-23 00:53:30 -0400
commita94b1d1fd7ca3129e1d38d38167779fa6ee69780 (patch)
treeba1de0d26b7cfce4f0c2f9245a4293c55da32ca5 /include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
parent5cfc35cf79d46af998346e3d5cc66fa344d1af0e (diff)
[SPARC64]: 8-byte align return value from compat_alloc_user_space()
Otherwise we get a ton of unaligned exceptions, for cases such as compat_sys_msgrcv() which go: p = compat_alloc_user_space(second + sizeof(struct msgbuf)); and here 'second' can for example be an arbitrary odd value. Based upon a bug report from Jurij Smakov. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-sparc64/compat.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-sparc64/compat.h7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h b/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
index c73935dc7ba..36511ca5141 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static inline compat_uptr_t ptr_to_compat(void __user *uptr)
164 return (u32)(unsigned long)uptr; 164 return (u32)(unsigned long)uptr;
165} 165}
166 166
167static __inline__ void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(long len) 167static inline void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
168{ 168{
169 struct pt_regs *regs = current_thread_info()->kregs; 169 struct pt_regs *regs = current_thread_info()->kregs;
170 unsigned long usp = regs->u_regs[UREG_I6]; 170 unsigned long usp = regs->u_regs[UREG_I6];
@@ -174,7 +174,10 @@ static __inline__ void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
174 else 174 else
175 usp &= 0xffffffffUL; 175 usp &= 0xffffffffUL;
176 176
177 return (void __user *) (usp - len); 177 usp -= len;
178 usp &= ~0x7UL;
179
180 return (void __user *) usp;
178} 181}
179 182
180struct compat_ipc64_perm { 183struct compat_ipc64_perm {