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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-06 20:56:51 -0400 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-08 20:19:01 -0400 |
commit | 97541912785369925723b6255438ad9fce2ddf04 (patch) | |
tree | 5c9e5cce0f174877046997fad05253d55b1d8532 /arch/x86/boot | |
parent | 0a137736704ef9af719409933b3c33e138461786 (diff) |
x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack. This
seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well.
[ Impact: extra paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S index d7245cf80261..d02a4f02be13 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | |||
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ ENTRY(startup_32) | |||
91 | /* Set up the stack */ | 91 | /* Set up the stack */ |
92 | leal boot_stack_end(%ebx), %esp | 92 | leal boot_stack_end(%ebx), %esp |
93 | 93 | ||
94 | /* Zero EFLAGS */ | ||
95 | pushl $0 | ||
96 | popfl | ||
97 | |||
94 | /* | 98 | /* |
95 | * Copy the compressed kernel to the end of our buffer | 99 | * Copy the compressed kernel to the end of our buffer |
96 | * where decompression in place becomes safe. | 100 | * where decompression in place becomes safe. |