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author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2005-05-01 15:58:46 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 15:58:46 (GMT) |
commit | c4005e4f661a9ec8d91720a6b570865d060afcaf (patch) | |
tree | 28fef4260af585b8fc708662eddefef9bdb828de /arch/ppc64 | |
parent | 4b88e927e8c38f4053680a3098325142017a37f0 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-c4005e4f661a9ec8d91720a6b570865d060afcaf.tar.xz |
[PATCH] ppc64: firmware workaround
Recent gcc 4.0 testing uncovered a firmware issue. Some properties are larger
than 31 bytes and due to gcc 4.0s better stack allocation this overflow ran
over non volatile register storage.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc64')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c index b0b784f..35ec42d 100644 --- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -1555,6 +1555,12 @@ static void __init scan_dt_build_strings(phandle node, unsigned long *mem_start, } } +/* + * The Open Firmware 1275 specification states properties must be 31 bytes or + * less, however not all firmwares obey this. Make it 64 bytes to be safe. + */ +#define MAX_PROPERTY_NAME 64 + static void __init scan_dt_build_struct(phandle node, unsigned long *mem_start, unsigned long *mem_end) { @@ -1564,7 +1570,7 @@ static void __init scan_dt_build_struct(phandle node, unsigned long *mem_start, unsigned long soff; unsigned char *valp; unsigned long offset = reloc_offset(); - char pname[32]; + char pname[MAX_PROPERTY_NAME]; char *path; path = RELOC(prom_scratch); |