[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "x86: Fix typo in kexec register clearing" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Jun 14 11:01:16 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86: Fix typo in kexec register clearing

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 70cb8bb0d365f0bc8b20fa67347caf9598a4674e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:47:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix typo in kexec register clearing

commit c8a22d19dd238ede87aa0ac4f7dbea8da039b9c1 upstream.

Fixes a typo in register clearing code. Thanks to PaX Team for fixing
this originally, and James Troup for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130605184718.GA8396@www.outflux.net
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec at freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index 7a6f3b3..f2bb9c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ identity_mapped:
 	xorq    %rbp, %rbp
 	xorq	%r8,  %r8
 	xorq	%r9,  %r9
-	xorq	%r10, %r9
+	xorq	%r10, %r10
 	xorq	%r11, %r11
 	xorq	%r12, %r12
 	xorq	%r13, %r13
--
1.8.1.2





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