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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-03-12 23:52:59 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-12 22:56:29 -0800
commitc33d4568aca9028a22857f94f5e0850012b6444b (patch)
tree7a33d918e4d35b0444820595cb2aaaae1f1f5bfa /Documentation/sysctl
parent31fe4d331729e9687db84521c3ceb8e43390efcf (diff)
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix up handling of non canonical user RIPs
EM64T CPUs have somewhat weird error reporting for non canonical RIPs in SYSRET. We can't handle any exceptions there because the exception handler would end up running on the user stack which is unsafe. To avoid problems any code that might end up with a user touched pt_regs should return using int_ret_from_syscall. int_ret_from_syscall ends up using IRET, which allows safe exceptions. Cc: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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