From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8535c239ac674f7ead0f2652932d35c52c4123b2 upstream. make sure that ->orig_r2 is negative for everything except the syscalls. Fixes: 82ed08dd1b0e ("nios2: Exception handling") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/nios2/include/asm/entry.h | 3 ++- arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/entry.h +++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/entry.h @@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ stw r13, PT_R13(sp) stw r14, PT_R14(sp) stw r15, PT_R15(sp) - stw r2, PT_ORIG_R2(sp) + movi r24, -1 + stw r24, PT_ORIG_R2(sp) stw r7, PT_ORIG_R7(sp) stw ra, PT_RA(sp) --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ ENTRY(handle_system_call) ldw r5, PT_R5(sp) local_restart: + stw r2, PT_ORIG_R2(sp) /* Check that the requested system call is within limits */ movui r1, __NR_syscalls bgeu r2, r1, ret_invsyscall @@ -336,9 +337,6 @@ external_interrupt: /* skip if no interrupt is pending */ beq r12, r0, ret_from_interrupt - movi r24, -1 - stw r24, PT_ORIG_R2(sp) - /* * Process an external hardware interrupt. */