linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86-64: fix CFI coverage for error

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Date:	Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:36:43 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	<mingo@...e.hu>, <tglx@...utronix.de>, <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	<heukelum@...tmail.fm>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: fix CFI coverage for error_entry()

The scope should really extend to the end of the function, not the
return location.

(Subject was wrong in the variant I sent yesterday.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ 2.6.36-rc3-x86_64-error_entry-unwind-scope/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1445,7 +1445,6 @@ error_swapgs:
 error_sti:
 	TRACE_IRQS_OFF
 	ret
-	CFI_ENDPROC
 
 /*
  * There are two places in the kernel that can potentially fault with
@@ -1470,6 +1469,7 @@ bstep_iret:
 	/* Fix truncated RIP */
 	movq %rcx,RIP+8(%rsp)
 	jmp error_swapgs
+	CFI_ENDPROC
 END(error_entry)
 
 



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