linux-kernel - Re: Q: a bogus set_fs(USER_DS) in setup_frame/setup_rt

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	oleg@...sign.ru
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, 76306.1226@...puserve.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, roland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: a bogus set_fs(USER_DS) in setup_frame/setup_rt_frame ?

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:15:35 +0400

> Also, sparc does something strange with do_sigaltstack(). It first copies
> stack_t to the local variable, then sets KERNEL_DS to access it from
> do_sigaltstack().
> 
> IOW, what's wrong with the patch below? Why should we ignore errors other
> than -EFAULT?

Nothing wrong with it.

The code is this way because it was simply copied over from
the signal32.c implementation which has to translate around
the 32-bit types into the 64-bit ones the kernel wants.

But since the 64-bit side doesn't need the translations,
it doesn't need to do the funny do_sigaltstack() call sequence
either.

I'll apply your patch, thanks!
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