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Message-ID: <20130528192102.20162.96295.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:21:02 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-am33-list@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ken Cox <jkc@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] MN10300: Fix ret_from_kernel_thread [ver #2]
ret_from_kernel_thread needs to set A2 to the thread_info pointer before
jumping to syscall_exit.
Without this, we never correctly start userspace.
This was caused by the rejuggling of the fork/exec paths in commit:
ddf23e87a804cbf6fa3818076b33fe023cce09fd
Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:32:41 2012 -0400
Subject: mn10300: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
Reported-by: Ken Cox <jkc@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Ken Cox <jkc@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S b/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
index 68fcab8..9420057 100644
--- a/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread)
mov (REG_D0,fp),d0
mov (REG_A0,fp),a0
calls (a0)
+ GET_THREAD_INFO a2 # A2 must be set on return from sys_exit()
clr d0
mov d0,(REG_D0,fp)
jmp syscall_exit
--
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