linux-kernel - Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode faults pollute current->thead

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:52:54 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Jeff Dike" <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<patches@...-64.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode
	faults pollute current->thead

>Yup.  How does this patch look to you?  We set error_code and trap_no
>for userspace faults and kernel faults which call die().  We don't set
>them for kernelspace faults which are fixed up.

Actually, after a second round of thinking I believe there's still more to do
- your second patch missed fixing i386's do_trap() similarly to x86-64's
and, vice versa, x86-64's do_general_protection() similarly to i386's.

Jan
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