On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:01 AM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
> Commit dd78b97367bd575918204cc89107c1479d3fc1a7 ("x86, boot: Move CPU
> flags out of cpucheck") introduced ambiguous inline asm in the
> has_eflag() function. We want the instruction to be 'pushfl', but we
> just say 'pushf' and hope the compiler does what we wanted.
>
> When building with 'clang -m16', it won't, because clang doesn't use
> the horrid '.code16gcc' hack that even 'gcc -m16' uses internally.
>
> Say what we mean and don't make the compiler make assumptions.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com>Yes, excellent point. Thanks! Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
