linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86_64,signal: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from sigcontext

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:28:17 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86_64,signal: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from
 sigcontext

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:03:25AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> As far as I can tell, these fields have been set to zero on save and
> ignored on restore since Linux was imported into git.  Rename them

Actually from the very beginning:

commit 47f16da277d10ef9494f3e9da2a9113bb22bcd75
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Date:   Tue Feb 12 20:17:35 2002 -0800

    [PATCH] x86_64 merge: arch + asm

...

+static int
+setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext *sc, struct _fpstate *fpstate,
+                struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long mask)
+{
+       int tmp, err = 0;
+
+       tmp = 0;
+       __asm__("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r"(tmp): "0"(tmp));
+       err |= __put_user(tmp, (unsigned int *)&sc->gs);
+       __asm__("movl %%fs,%0" : "=r"(tmp): "0"(tmp));
+       err |= __put_user(tmp, (unsigned int *)&sc->fs);


> '__pad1' and '__pad2' to avoid confusion and to allow them to be
> recycled some day.
> 
> I'm intentionally avoiding calling either of them __pad0: the field
> formerly known as __pad0 is now ss.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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