Commit 97541912 authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin

x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits

The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack.  This
seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well.

[ Impact: extra paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 0a137736
......@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
/* Set up the stack */
leal boot_stack_end(%ebx), %esp
/* Zero EFLAGS */
pushl $0
popfl
/*
* Copy the compressed kernel to the end of our buffer
* where decompression in place becomes safe.
......
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