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Brian Gerst 6a3713f001 x86/signal: Remove pax argument from restore_sigcontext
The 'pax' argument is unnecesary.  Instead, store the RAX value
directly in regs.

This pattern goes all the way back to 2.1.106pre1, when restore_sigcontext()
was changed to return an error code instead of EAX directly:

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c?id=9a8f8b7ca3f319bd668298d447bdf32730e51174

In 2007 sigaltstack syscall support was added, where the return
value of restore_sigcontext() was changed to carry the memory-copying
failure code.

But instead of putting 'ax' into regs->ax directly, it was carried
in via a pointer and then returned, where the generic syscall return
code copied it to regs->ax.

So there was never any deeper reason for this suboptimal pattern, it
was simply never noticed after being introduced.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428152303-17154-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-06 09:06:39 +02:00
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alpha asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
arc ARC: Fix thread_saved_pc() 2015-02-27 10:59:34 +05:30
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2015-03-21 10:03:22 -07:00
arm64 arm64 fixes: 2015-03-21 10:24:10 -07:00
avr32 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2015-02-21 12:59:04 -08:00
c6x arch/c6x/include/asm/pgtable.h: define dummy pgprot_writecombine for !MMU 2015-03-12 18:46:08 -07:00
cris CRIS changes for 3.20 2015-02-15 18:02:02 -08:00
frv mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
hexagon all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
ia64 asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
m32r mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
m68k mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
metag metag: Fix KSTK_EIP() and KSTK_ESP() macros 2015-02-24 12:54:21 +00:00
microblaze microblaze: Fix syscall error recovery for invalid syscall IDs 2015-03-04 15:12:27 +01:00
mips KVM: MIPS: Enable after disabling interrupt 2015-03-02 19:18:12 -03:00
mn10300 mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
nios2 nios2: mm: do not invoke OOM killer on kernel fault OOM 2015-03-16 15:35:25 +08:00
openrisc asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
parisc mm: add missing __PAGETABLE_{PUD,PMD}_FOLDED defines 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
powerpc powerpc/iommu: Remove IOMMU device references via bus notifier 2015-03-04 13:19:33 +11:00
s390 kvm: move advertising of KVM_CAP_IRQFD to common code 2015-03-10 21:18:59 -03:00
score all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
sh asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
sparc sparc: Fix /proc/kcore 2015-03-18 19:15:28 -07:00
tile tile: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
um all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
unicore32 mm: vmalloc: pass additional vm_flags to __vmalloc_node_range() 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
x86 x86/signal: Remove pax argument from restore_sigcontext 2015-04-06 09:06:39 +02:00
xtensa asm-generic: uaccess.h cleanup 2015-02-18 10:02:24 -08:00
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