From: Dirk Herrendoerfer <herrendo@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:00:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [PATCH] spufs: initialize context correctly
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~165^2~52
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[PATCH] spufs: initialize context correctly

the mfc member of a new context was not initialized to zero,
which potentially leads to wild memory accesses.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
index 3f75c1e7ad..8bb33abfad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct spu_context *alloc_spu_context(void)
 	ctx->ibox_fasync = NULL;
 	ctx->wbox_fasync = NULL;
 	ctx->mfc_fasync = NULL;
+	ctx->mfc = NULL;
 	ctx->tagwait = 0;
 	ctx->state = SPU_STATE_SAVED;
 	ctx->local_store = NULL;