From: James Bottomley Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: PARISC: fix panic on prefetch(NULL) on PA7300LC X-Git-Tag: v3.3.8~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4d4297f42d0de1f91f580cec857dbcc9ebcb12d0;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git PARISC: fix panic on prefetch(NULL) on PA7300LC commit b3cb8674811d1851bbf1486a73d62b90c119b994 upstream. Due to an errata, the PA7300LC generates a TLB miss interruption even on the prefetch instruction. This means that prefetch(NULL), which is supposed to be a nop on linux actually generates a NULL deref fault. Fix this by testing the address of prefetch against NULL before doing the prefetch. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/prefetch.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/prefetch.h index c5edc60c059f0..1ee7c82672c1c 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/prefetch.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/prefetch.h @@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ #define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH static inline void prefetch(const void *addr) { - __asm__("ldw 0(%0), %%r0" : : "r" (addr)); + __asm__( +#ifndef CONFIG_PA20 + /* Need to avoid prefetch of NULL on PA7300LC */ + " extrw,u,= %0,31,32,%%r0\n" +#endif + " ldw 0(%0), %%r0" : : "r" (addr)); } /* LDD is a PA2.0 addition. */