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Commit 6f20e7f2 authored by Gavin Shan's avatar Gavin Shan Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/kernel: Avoid memory corruption at early stage



When calling to early_setup(), we pick "boot_paca" up for the master CPU
and initialize that with initialise_paca(). At that point, the SLB
shadow buffer isn't populated yet. Updating the SLB shadow buffer should
corrupt what we had in physical address 0 where the trap instruction is
usually stored.

This hasn't been observed to cause any trouble in practice, but is
obviously fishy.

Fixes: 6f4441ef ("powerpc: Dynamically allocate slb_shadow from memblock")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 53a448c3
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