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authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>2009-12-09 12:34:41 -0500
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-12-10 15:55:30 -0800
commitfa4b8f84383ae197e643a46c36bf58ab8dffc95c (patch)
treef114c29d8ca381f20c0c8d0ba854f3c16bb8b834 /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
parent3bd95dfb182969dc6d2a317c150e0df7107608d3 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 92484c2130c..00ac66fa5c6 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;