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powerpc: Reset MSR_LE on signal entry

We always take signals in big endian which is wrong. Signals
should be taken in native endian.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard 11 years ago
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e871c6bbf6
2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 1
      arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
  2. 2 1
      arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c

+ 2 - 1
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c

@@ -1045,8 +1045,9 @@ int handle_rt_signal32(unsigned long sig, struct k_sigaction *ka,
 	regs->gpr[5] = (unsigned long) &rt_sf->uc;
 	regs->gpr[6] = (unsigned long) rt_sf;
 	regs->nip = (unsigned long) ka->sa.sa_handler;
-	/* enter the signal handler in big-endian mode */
+	/* enter the signal handler in native-endian mode */
 	regs->msr &= ~MSR_LE;
+	regs->msr |= (MSR_KERNEL & MSR_LE);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
 	/* Remove TM bits from thread's MSR.  The MSR in the sigcontext
 	 * just indicates to userland that we were doing a transaction, but we

+ 2 - 1
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c

@@ -773,8 +773,9 @@ int handle_rt_signal64(int signr, struct k_sigaction *ka, siginfo_t *info,
 
 	/* Set up "regs" so we "return" to the signal handler. */
 	err |= get_user(regs->nip, &funct_desc_ptr->entry);
-	/* enter the signal handler in big-endian mode */
+	/* enter the signal handler in native-endian mode */
 	regs->msr &= ~MSR_LE;
+	regs->msr |= (MSR_KERNEL & MSR_LE);
 	regs->gpr[1] = newsp;
 	err |= get_user(regs->gpr[2], &funct_desc_ptr->toc);
 	regs->gpr[3] = signr;