[PATCH] arm: memset: zero out upper bytes in r1

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon May 05 2014 - 03:36:15 EST


memset doesn't work right for following example:

signed char c = 0xF0;
memset(addr, c, size);

Variable c is signed, so after typcasting to int the value will be 0xFFFFFFF0.
This value will be passed through r1 regitster to memset function.
memset doesn't zero out upper bytes in r1, so memory will be filled
with 0xFFFFFFF0 instead of expected 0xF0F0F0F0.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/lib/memset.S | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
index 94b0650..a010f76 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ ENTRY(memset)
/*
* we know that the pointer in ip is aligned to a word boundary.
*/
-1: orr r1, r1, r1, lsl #8
+1: and r1, r1, #0xff
+ orr r1, r1, r1, lsl #8
orr r1, r1, r1, lsl #16
mov r3, r1
cmp r2, #16
--
1.8.3.2

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