Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 4217458daf.
Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox
crashes.
The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of
the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and
thus corrupts user-space register state.
So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe
method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this.
Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505
Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Tested-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
In asm/syscalls.h move out sys_set_thread_area() and sys_get_thread_area()
as they are common for both 32 and 64 bit.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
In asm/syscalls.h moved out sys_modify_ldt from CONFIG_X86_32 as it is
common for both 32 and 64 bit.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup on 32-bit
Peter pointed this parameter can be changed.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
