[PATCH] powerpc/relocate fix relocate processing in LE mode

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 14 03:36:08 EST 2014


Relocation's code is not working in little endian mode because the r_info
field, which is a 64 bits value, should be read from the right offset.

The current code is optimized to read the r_info field as a 32 bits value
starting at the middle of the double word (offset 12). When running in LE
mode, the read value is not correct since only the MSB is read.

This patch removes this optimization which consist to deal with a 32 bits
value instead of a 64 bits one. This way it works in big and little endian
mode.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
index b47a0e1..1482327 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ _GLOBAL(relocate)
 	 * R_PPC64_RELATIVE ones.
 	 */
 	mtctr	r8
-5:	lwz	r0,12(9)	/* ELF64_R_TYPE(reloc->r_info) */
-	cmpwi	r0,R_PPC64_RELATIVE
+5:	ld	r0,8(9)		/* ELF64_R_TYPE(reloc->r_info) */
+	cmpdi	r0,R_PPC64_RELATIVE
 	bne	6f
 	ld	r6,0(r9)	/* reloc->r_offset */
 	ld	r0,16(r9)	/* reloc->r_addend */



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