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Subject: [Bug 118241] New: clone(2) gives wrong prototype for raw system call
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 18:45:15 +0000
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118241
Bug ID: 118241
Summary: clone(2) gives wrong prototype for raw system call
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/vQLgFONoPN62D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
Reporter: b7.10110111-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Regression: No
clone(2) man gives the following prototype for the raw system call:
long clone(unsigned long flags, void *child_stack,
void *ptid, void *ctid,
struct pt_regs *regs);
But actual kernel never seems to take `struct pt_regs* regs` as an argument.
Instead it takes `struct user_desc* tls`. See the definitions of clone in
kernel/fork.c. None of the #if branches have anything resembling `struct
pt_regs`, but all do have `tls`.
You can see another evidence of this in arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:
* The 32-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
* The 64-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
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