From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:04:05 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: prevent stack corruption in call_prom_ret
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15-rc4~4^2^2
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed1189b7e8cd8144f0b232c220aed4ee26d89463;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

[PATCH] powerpc: prevent stack corruption in call_prom_ret

Use the correct pointer to clear the memory of the return values,
to prevent stack corruption in the callers stackframe.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index 4ce0105c308..bcdc209dca8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static int __init call_prom_ret(const char *service, int nargs, int nret,
 	va_end(list);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nret; i++)
-		rets[nargs+i] = 0;
+		args.args[nargs+i] = 0;
 
 	if (enter_prom(&args, RELOC(prom_entry)) < 0)
 		return PROM_ERROR;