[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>
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 @@
}
}
+/*
+ * 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 @@
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);
