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-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index df6c2bcde06..2333aead056 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -554,7 +554,9 @@ 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+THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(ptregs));
+ ((unsigned long)tsk->thread_info +
+ /* see comments in copy_thread() about -8 */
+ THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(ptregs) - 8);
ptregs.xcs &= 0xffff;
ptregs.xds &= 0xffff;
ptregs.xes &= 0xffff;