linux-kernel - Re: Issues with "x86, um: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone" commit

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Date:	Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:08:53 -0800
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Issues with "x86, um: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone" commit

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Could you verify that this on top of for-next gets the things working again?
> It's a very lazy way to deal with that (we don't want to bother with
> restoring extras, at the very least), but the rest can go separately (and
> is shared with mainline, unlike that one).  It seems to be working here,
> but I'd like to see your ACK as well.  If everything works, it'll get
> folded into the offending commit...
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> index 633649e..32e6f05 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> @@ -467,11 +467,16 @@ GLOBAL(\label)
>         PTREGSCALL stub32_sigaltstack, sys32_sigaltstack, %rdx
>         PTREGSCALL stub32_execve, compat_sys_execve, %rcx
>         PTREGSCALL stub32_fork, sys_fork, %rdi
> -       PTREGSCALL stub32_clone, sys_clone, %rdx
>         PTREGSCALL stub32_vfork, sys_vfork, %rdi
>         PTREGSCALL stub32_iopl, sys_iopl, %rsi
>
>         ALIGN
> +GLOBAL(stub32_clone)
> +       leaq sys_clone(%rip),%rax
> +       mov     %r8, %rcx
> +       jmp  ia32_ptregs_common
> +
> +       ALIGN
>  ia32_ptregs_common:
>         popq %r11
>         CFI_ENDPROC

Yes, I tested the above by applying it on top of mmotm and it did
solve the issue.

Thanks,

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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