[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Fix wrong loop bound in flush_cache() when "size" is zero

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at mvista.com
Tue Aug 9 14:38:10 CEST 2011


Hello.

On 08-08-2011 17:57, Yao Cheng wrote:

> The issue is found when calling flush_cache() with zero "size" argument.
> The bound of loop is miscalculated in this case and flush_cache() enters a wrong flushing loop.
> To fix this issue I skipped the operations when "size" is found to be zero.

> Signed-off-by: Yao Cheng<saturdaycoder at gmail.com>
> Cc: Shinya Kuribayashi<skuribay at pobox.com>
> ---
> Changes for v2:
> 	- Coding style cleanup
> 	- Move code after declarations to avoid warning

>   arch/mips/cpu/mips32/cpu.c |    5 +++++
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/cpu.c b/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/cpu.c
> index 3ae397c..8fa53ba 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/cpu.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/cpu.c
> @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ void flush_cache(ulong start_addr, ulong size)
>   	unsigned long addr = start_addr&  ~(lsize - 1);
>   	unsigned long aend = (start_addr + size - 1)&  ~(lsize - 1);
>
> +	/* aend will be miscalculated when size is zero, so we return here */
> +	if (size == 0) {
> +		return;
> +	}

    {} not needed here.

WBR, Sergei


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