[tip:x86/asm] x86, 64-bit: Use user_mode() to determine new stack pointer in copy_thread()

tip-bot for Brian Gerst
2009-12-11T00:46:15Z

Commit-ID: fa4b8f84383ae197e643a46c36bf58ab8dffc95c
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fa4b8f84383ae197e643a46c36bf58ab8dffc95c
Author: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:34:41 -0500
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:30 -0800

x86, 64-bit: Use user_mode() to determine new stack pointer in copy_thread()

Use user_mode() instead of a magic value for sp to determine when returning
to kernel mode.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-3-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 92484c2..00ac66f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF;

/* Ok, create the new process.. */
- return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, ~0UL, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
+ return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);

@@ -312,8 +312,9 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
*childregs = *regs;

childregs->ax = 0;
- childregs->sp = sp;
- if (sp == ~0UL)
+ if (user_mode(regs))
+ childregs->sp = sp;
+ else
childregs->sp = (unsigned long)childregs;

p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) childregs;