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| author | akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> | 2006-01-12 01:05:41 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-12 09:08:52 -0800 |
| commit | 07b047fc2466249aff7cdb23fa0b0955a7a00d48 (patch) | |
| tree | af22cc80470f8aff6d0c25276ef8fae2b3f537a7 /arch/i386/kernel/process.c | |
| parent | 06b425d80f56280e698b3e8487c372e0d39d9ba1 (diff) | |
[PATCH] i386: fix task_pt_regs()
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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
task_pt_regs() needs the same offset-by-8 to match copy_thread()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/process.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c index 5dd03757f50..3d7e0c8e992 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -424,18 +424,7 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long esp, struct task_struct *tsk; int err; - childregs = ((struct pt_regs *) (THREAD_SIZE + (unsigned long) p->thread_info)) - 1; - /* - * The below -8 is to reserve 8 bytes on top of the ring0 stack. - * This is necessary to guarantee that the entire "struct pt_regs" - * is accessable even if the CPU haven't stored the SS/ESP registers - * on the stack (interrupt gate does not save these registers - * when switching to the same priv ring). - * Therefore beware: accessing the xss/esp fields of the - * "struct pt_regs" is possible, but they may contain the - * completely wrong values. - */ - childregs = (struct pt_regs *) ((unsigned long) childregs - 8); + childregs = task_pt_regs(p); *childregs = *regs; childregs->eax = 0; childregs->esp = esp; @@ -540,12 +529,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_thread); */ int dump_task_regs(struct task_struct *tsk, elf_gregset_t *regs) { - struct pt_regs ptregs; - - ptregs = *(struct pt_regs *) - ((unsigned long)tsk->thread_info + - /* see comments in copy_thread() about -8 */ - THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(ptregs) - 8); + struct pt_regs ptregs = *task_pt_regs(tsk); ptregs.xcs &= 0xffff; ptregs.xds &= 0xffff; ptregs.xes &= 0xffff; |