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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: force_successful_syscall_return() buggy?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:11:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615231106.GA14939@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030615193604.L5417@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:36:04PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> AFAIK, sys_execve() does not ensure that the kernel stack will be empty
> before starting the user space thread, so these programs are running with
> a slightly reduced kernel stack.

Indeed.  This is fixed in a rewrite I have of entry.S, but
that's not particularly stable at the moment...


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-15 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-15 18:36 force_successful_syscall_return() buggy? Russell King
2003-06-15 23:11 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2003-06-16  2:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-16 17:38 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-16 17:55   ` Russell King
2003-06-16 18:02     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 18:25     ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <fa.it5uct2.s4s8om@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.gvpfoqi.ngk8p2@ifi.uio.no>
2003-06-17  6:54   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2003-06-17 19:01     ` David Mosberger
2003-06-17 18:58       ` David S. Miller
2003-06-19 17:35       ` Richard Henderson

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