The asm constraint does not reflect that the asm statement can modify the value of @loops. But the asm statement in delay_loop() does modify the @loops.
Specifiying the wrong constraint may lead to undefined behavior, it may clobber random stuff (e.g. local variable, important temporary value in regs, etc.).
Fix this by changing the constraint from "a" (as an input) to "+a" (as an input and output).
Cc: David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" hpa@zytor.com Cc: Jiri Hladky hladky.jiri@googlemail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.27+ Fixes: e01b70ef3eb ("x86: fix bug in arch/i386/lib/delay.c file, delay_loop function") Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org --- arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c index 65d15df6212d..0e65d00e2339 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ static void delay_loop(u64 __loops) " jnz 2b \n" "3: dec %0 \n"
- : /* we don't need output */ - :"a" (loops) + : "+a" (loops) + : ); }