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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2011-08-22 13:27:06 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-29 14:08:07 -0700
commit2bbc3e27c16c993c5f4a1949879c288edec896bc (patch)
tree3a3adc662cd9b9c9010053379221cbfe632b659b /arch
parentd64ec7bb4e2e4915e698e2b0dee3bc115f9ff273 (diff)
x86-32, vdso: On system call restart after SYSENTER, use int $0x80
commit 7ca0758cdb7c241cb4e0490a8d95f0eb5b861daf upstream. When we enter a 32-bit system call via SYSENTER or SYSCALL, we shuffle the arguments to match the int $0x80 calling convention. This was probably a design mistake, but it's what it is now. This causes errors if the system call as to be restarted. For SYSENTER, we have to invoke the instruction from the vdso as the return address is hardcoded. Accordingly, we can simply replace the jump in the vdso with an int $0x80 instruction and use the slower entry point for a post-restart. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFztZ=r5wa0x26KJQxvZOaQq8s2v3u50wCyJcA-Sc4g8gQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
index e2800affa75..e354bceee0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ __kernel_vsyscall:
.space 7,0x90
/* 14: System call restart point is here! (SYSENTER_RETURN-2) */
- jmp .Lenter_kernel
+ int $0x80
/* 16: System call normal return point is here! */
VDSO32_SYSENTER_RETURN: /* Symbol used by sysenter.c via vdso32-syms.h */
pop %ebp