2006-03-23 20:44:46

by Arnd Bergmann

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Subject: [patch 13/13] spufs: initialize context correctly

the mfc member of a new context was not initialized to zero,
which potentially leads to wild memory accesses.

From: Dirk Herrendoerfer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct spu_context *alloc_spu_context(vo
ctx->ibox_fasync = NULL;
ctx->wbox_fasync = NULL;
ctx->mfc_fasync = NULL;
+ ctx->mfc = NULL;
ctx->tagwait = 0;
ctx->state = SPU_STATE_SAVED;
ctx->local_store = NULL;

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