linux-stable/arch/x86
Ingo Molnar 5d119b2c9a x86: fix execve with -fstack-protect
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu:

> what happens here is that gcc treats the argument area as owned by the
> callee, not the caller and is allowed to do certain tricks. for ssp it
> will make a copy of the struct passed by value into the local variable
> area and pass *its* address down, and it won't copy it back into the
> original instance stored in the argument area.
>
> so once sys_execve returns, the pt_regs passed by value hasn't at all
> changed and its default content will cause a nice double fault (FWIW,
> this part took me the longest to debug, being down with cold didn't
> help it either ;).

To fix this we pass in pt_regs by pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26 12:55:57 +01:00
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boot x86: handle BIOSes which terminate e820 with CF=1 and no SMAP 2008-02-26 12:55:52 +01:00
configs x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING 2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
crypto [CRYPTO] twofish: Merge common glue code 2008-01-14 17:07:57 +11:00
ia32 Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0 2008-02-07 08:42:30 -08:00
kernel x86: fix execve with -fstack-protect 2008-02-26 12:55:57 +01:00
kvm kvm: i386 fix 2008-02-05 09:44:06 -08:00
lguest x86/lguest: fix pgdir pmd index calculation 2008-02-26 12:55:49 +01:00
lib x86: clean up csum-wrappers_64.c some more 2008-02-19 16:18:32 +01:00
mach-default spelling fixes: arch/i386/ 2007-10-20 01:13:56 +02:00
mach-es7000 i386: es7000 minor cleanups 2007-10-17 20:16:15 +02:00
mach-generic spelling fixes: arch/i386/ 2007-10-20 01:13:56 +02:00
mach-rdc321x x86: add support for the RDC R-321x SoC 2008-01-30 13:33:36 +01:00
mach-visws x86: cleanup mpspec variants 2008-01-30 13:30:35 +01:00
mach-voyager calibrate_delay() must be __cpuinit 2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
math-emu x86: arch/x86/math-emu/errors.c: fix printk warnings 2008-01-30 13:32:13 +01:00
mm x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImage 2008-02-26 12:55:56 +01:00
oprofile x86: rename stack_pointer to kernel_trap_sp 2008-01-30 13:33:16 +01:00
pci PCI: irq: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's 2008-02-21 15:34:36 -08:00
power x86 cleanup: suspend_asm_64.S - use X86_CR4_PGE instead of numeric value 2008-02-19 16:18:33 +01:00
vdso x86: vdso_install fix 2008-02-11 20:50:09 -08:00
video i386: move video 2007-10-11 11:16:56 +02:00
xen xen: unpin initial Xen pagetable once we're finished with it 2008-02-13 16:20:35 +01:00
Kconfig Mark CC_STACKPROTECTOR as being BROKEN 2008-02-22 08:21:38 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: don't use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC 2008-02-26 12:55:51 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86: change IO delay back to 0x80 2008-02-19 16:18:34 +01:00
Makefile x86: fix vdso_install breaks user "make install" 2008-02-19 16:18:34 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86 2007-10-25 22:27:34 +02:00