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Message-ID: <20080306092102.GB12919@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:21:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Clear DF before calling signal handler
* Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net> wrote:
> The Linux kernel currently does not clear the direction flag before
> calling a signal handler, whereas the x86/x86-64 ABI requires that.
> This become a real problem with gcc version 4.3, which assumes that
> the direction flag is correctly cleared at the entry of a function.
>
> This patches changes the setup_frame() functions to clear the
> direction before entering the signal handler.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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