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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2015-10-05 17:48:13 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-09 09:41:10 +0200
commit39e8701f33d65c7f51d749a5d12a1379065e0926 (patch)
treee3d2ea194d87f728df1c70f33f3eef26ea125d59 /arch/x86/entry
parent7841b408717d4c3b1b334c8f1fef7f18c98cd2bd (diff)
downloadlinux-39e8701f33d65c7f51d749a5d12a1379065e0926.tar.bz2
x86/entry/32: Open-code return tracking from fork and kthreads
syscall_exit is going away, and return tracing is just a function call now, so open-code the two non-syscall 32-bit users. While we're at it, update the big register layout comment. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a6b3c472fda7cda0e368c3ccd553dea7447dfdd2.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index a08ded481aba..36b6beb181f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*
* entry_32.S contains the system-call and low-level fault and trap handling routines.
*
- * Stack layout in 'syscall_exit':
+ * Stack layout while running C code:
* ptrace needs to have all registers on the stack.
* If the order here is changed, it needs to be
* updated in fork.c:copy_process(), signal.c:do_signal(),
@@ -211,7 +211,11 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
popl %eax
pushl $0x0202 # Reset kernel eflags
popfl
- jmp syscall_exit
+
+ /* When we fork, we trace the syscall return in the child, too. */
+ movl %esp, %eax
+ call syscall_return_slowpath
+ jmp restore_all
END(ret_from_fork)
ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread)
@@ -224,7 +228,15 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_kernel_thread)
movl PT_EBP(%esp), %eax
call *PT_EBX(%esp)
movl $0, PT_EAX(%esp)
- jmp syscall_exit
+
+ /*
+ * Kernel threads return to userspace as if returning from a syscall.
+ * We should check whether anything actually uses this path and, if so,
+ * consider switching it over to ret_from_fork.
+ */
+ movl %esp, %eax
+ call syscall_return_slowpath
+ jmp restore_all
ENDPROC(ret_from_kernel_thread)
/*