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[PATCH v2] ARM: Fix clone code when built for Thumb.


The mov lr, pc instruction will lose the Thumb bit from the return address
so use blx lr instead.

ports/ChangeLog.arm:

2013-08-29  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>

	[BZ #15909]
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S (__clone): Use blx
	instead of mov lr, pc.
---
 NEWS                                      | 2 +-
 ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Changes in v2:
 - Add BZ number
 - Add NEWS entry

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d3524ff..4fe4b63 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Version 2.19
 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:

   14699, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15736, 15749, 15797, 15867, 15890, 15897,
-  15905.
+  15905, 15909.

 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
   to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
diff --git a/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S b/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S
index ce9c2a5..6e74fa7 100644
--- a/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S
+++ b/ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ PSEUDO_END (__clone)
 	mov	lr, pc
 	bx      ip
 #else
-	mov	lr, pc
-	ldr 	pc, [sp], #8
+	ldr 	lr, [sp], #8
+	blx	lr
 #endif

 	@ and we are done, passing the return value through r0
-- 
1.8.1.4


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