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x86/signal: Remove pax argument from restore_sigcontext

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The 'pax' argument is unnecesary.  Instead, store the RAX value
directly in regs.

This pattern goes all the way back to 2.1.106pre1, when restore_sigcontext()
was changed to return an error code instead of EAX directly:

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c?id=9a8f8b7ca3f319bd668298d447bdf32730e51174

In 2007 sigaltstack syscall support was added, where the return
value of restore_sigcontext() was changed to carry the memory-copying
failure code.

But instead of putting 'ax' into regs->ax directly, it was carried
in via a pointer and then returned, where the generic syscall return
code copied it to regs->ax.

So there was never any deeper reason for this suboptimal pattern, it
was simply never noticed after being introduced.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428152303-17154-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Brian Gerst
2015-04-04 08:58:23 -04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent dbe4058a6a
commit 6a3713f001
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@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
X86_EFLAGS_CF | X86_EFLAGS_RF)
void signal_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, void __user *frame, char *where);
int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigcontext __user *sc,
unsigned long *pax);
int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigcontext __user *sc);
int setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, void __user *fpstate,
struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long mask);