Patch "powerpc/32: Fix csum_partial_copy_generic()" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc/32: Fix csum_partial_copy_generic()

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-32-fix-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:07:05 +0200
Subject: powerpc/32: Fix csum_partial_copy_generic()

From: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>

commit 1bc8b816cb8058c31f61fe78442f10a43209e582 upstream.

Commit 7aef4136566b0 ("powerpc32: rewrite csum_partial_copy_generic() based on copy_tofrom_user()") introduced a bug when destination address is odd and initial csum is not null

In that (rare) case the initial csum value has to be rotated one byte as well as the resulting value is

This patch also fixes related comments

---
 arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ _GLOBAL(csum_partial_copy_generic)
 	stw	r7,12(r1)
 	stw	r8,8(r1)
 
-	andi.	r0,r4,1			/* is destination address even ? */
-	cmplwi	cr7,r0,0
+	rlwinm	r0,r4,3,0x8
+	rlwnm	r6,r6,r0,0,31	/* odd destination address: rotate one byte */
+	cmplwi	cr7,r0,0	/* is destination address even ? */
 	addic	r12,r6,0
 	addi	r6,r4,-4
 	neg	r0,r4

@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ _GLOBAL(csum_partial_copy_generic)
 66:	addze	r3,r12
 	addi	r1,r1,16
 	beqlr+	cr7
-	rlwinm	r3,r3,8,0,31	/* swap bytes for odd destination */
+	rlwinm	r3,r3,8,0,31	/* odd destination address: rotate one byte */
 	blr
 
 /* read fault */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/powerpc-sysdev-cpm-fix-gpio-save_regs-functions.patch queue-4.7/powerpc-32-fix-again-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch queue-4.7/powerpc-32-fix-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch