linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] ptrace: make {put,get}reg work again for gs and fs

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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:00:49 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] ptrace: make {put,get}reg work again for gs and fs

Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> This is a -mm1 kernel + your efl_offset fix + the attached patch.
> So the problem came from putreg still saving %gs to the stack where
> there's no slot for it, whereas getreg got things right.
>   

That patch looks good, but I think it is already effectively in Andrew's
queue, because I noticed some problems in there when I reviewed  the
convert-to-%fs patch.

    J
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