From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:21:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] uml: make UML_SETJMP always safe X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc2~93 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5cdb5797d364a112879e49cc708083853ffc592;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] uml: make UML_SETJMP always safe If enable is moved by GCC in a register its value may not be preserved after coming back there with longjmp(). So, mark it as volatile to prevent this; this is suggested (it seems) in info gcc, when it talks about -Wuninitialized. I re-read this and it seems to say something different, but I still believe this may be needed. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/um/include/longjmp.h b/arch/um/include/longjmp.h index e93c6d3e89..e860bc5848 100644 --- a/arch/um/include/longjmp.h +++ b/arch/um/include/longjmp.h @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ extern void longjmp(jmp_buf, int); } while(0) #define UML_SETJMP(buf) ({ \ - int n, enable; \ + int n; \ + volatile int enable; \ enable = get_signals(); \ n = setjmp(*buf); \ if(n != 0) \