[PATCH] Alpha: strncpy() fix
As it turned out after recent SCSI changes, strncpy() was broken -
it mixed up the return values from __stxncpy() in registers $24 and $27.
Thanks to Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer for tracking down the problem
and providing an excellent test case.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/alpha/lib/strncpy.S b/arch/alpha/lib/strncpy.S
index 338551c..bbdef1b 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/lib/strncpy.S
+++ b/arch/alpha/lib/strncpy.S
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
.align 4
$multiword:
- subq $24, 1, $2 # clear the final bits in the prev word
- or $2, $24, $2
+ subq $27, 1, $2 # clear the final bits in the prev word
+ or $2, $27, $2
zapnot $1, $2, $1
subq $18, 1, $18
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@
bne $18, 0b
1: ldq_u $1, 0($16) # clear the leading bits in the final word
- subq $27, 1, $2
- or $2, $27, $2
+ subq $24, 1, $2
+ or $2, $24, $2
zap $1, $2, $1
stq_u $1, 0($16)