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authorCory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com>2017-06-16 14:43:35 -0400
committerCory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com>2017-06-16 15:19:15 -0400
commit9af207c810b5c4b09ccbdec75582b3e34e32e8cc (patch)
treecb558fe7015607bb55bcd3b0f9619ca762588938 /src/random.cpp
parentc2ab38bdd57a16e6c708dcc633d9162331c9d311 (diff)
random: fix crash on some 64bit platforms
rbx needs to be stashed in a 64bit register on 64bit platforms. With this crash in particular, it was holding a stack canary which was not properly restored after the cpuid. Split out the x86+PIC case so that x86_64 doesn't have to worry about it.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/random.cpp')
-rw-r--r--src/random.cpp10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/random.cpp b/src/random.cpp
index 7916643263..67efc7d945 100644
--- a/src/random.cpp
+++ b/src/random.cpp
@@ -72,10 +72,16 @@ static bool rdrand_supported = false;
static constexpr uint32_t CPUID_F1_ECX_RDRAND = 0x40000000;
static void RDRandInit()
{
- //! When calling cpuid function #1, ecx register will have this set if RDRAND is available.
+ uint32_t eax, ecx, edx;
+#if defined(__i386__) && ( defined(__PIC__) || defined(__PIE__))
// Avoid clobbering ebx, as that is used for PIC on x86.
- uint32_t eax, tmp, ecx, edx;
+ uint32_t tmp;
__asm__ ("mov %%ebx, %1; cpuid; mov %1, %%ebx": "=a"(eax), "=g"(tmp), "=c"(ecx), "=d"(edx) : "a"(1));
+#else
+ uint32_t ebx;
+ __asm__ ("cpuid": "=a"(eax), "=b"(ebx), "=c"(ecx), "=d"(edx) : "a"(1));
+#endif
+ //! When calling cpuid function #1, ecx register will have this set if RDRAND is available.
if (ecx & CPUID_F1_ECX_RDRAND) {
LogPrintf("Using RdRand as entropy source\n");
rdrand_supported = true;