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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 638dde313cb..430f4c15d78 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -26,12 +26,18 @@ unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
unsigned long target, int flags)
{
unsigned int instruction;
+ long offset;
+ offset = target;
if (! (flags & BRANCH_ABSOLUTE))
- target = target - (unsigned long)addr;
+ offset = offset - (unsigned long)addr;
+
+ /* Check we can represent the target in the instruction format */
+ if (offset < -0x2000000 || offset > 0x1fffffc || offset & 0x3)
+ return 0;
/* Mask out the flags and target, so they don't step on each other. */
- instruction = 0x48000000 | (flags & 0x3) | (target & 0x03FFFFFC);
+ instruction = 0x48000000 | (flags & 0x3) | (offset & 0x03FFFFFC);
return instruction;
}