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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2010-09-14 12:42:41 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2010-09-14 16:08:46 -0700
commit36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de (patch)
tree98e061ce49af5ce48d6d67ffe5d3258563f4445d /arch/powerpc
parentc41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 (diff)
x86-64, compat: Test %rax for the syscall number, not %eax
On 64 bits, we always, by necessity, jump through the system call table via %rax. For 32-bit system calls, in theory the system call number is stored in %eax, and the code was testing %eax for a valid system call number. At one point we loaded the stored value back from the stack to enforce zero-extension, but that was removed in checkin d4d67150165df8bf1cc05e532f6efca96f907cab. An actual 32-bit process will not be able to introduce a non-zero-extended number, but it can happen via ptrace. Instead of re-introducing the zero-extension, test what we are actually going to use, i.e. %rax. This only adds a handful of REX prefixes to the code. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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