linux-kernel - Re: [bisected] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:39:39 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Peter Annema <jag@....nl>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [bisected] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

Justin Madru <jdm64 <at> gawab.com> writes:
> Ok, finally bisected the bug, but the commit isn't related to networking!
> I did: git revert 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191
> on current git and that fixed the bug.

...

>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> -asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused)
> +asmlinkage int sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs regs)
>  {
> -       struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)&__unused;
> -
> -       return do_rt_sigreturn(regs);
> +       return do_rt_sigreturn(&regs);
>  }

Is sizeof(struct pt_regs) different from sizeof(unsigned long)? If so, is some
code somewhere messing with the stack and not expecting a struct pt_regs to have
been put on it?



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