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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:50:41 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: syscall_get_error() && TS_ checks
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On 03/29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> That said, I'm not sure why you want to change this in the first
> place? I think the current syscall_get_error() - with explicit compat
> handling and all - is fine.

To simplify this logic. To kill TS_I386_REGS_POKED (which doesn't really
work and can't) and to remove the subtle dependency on TS_COMPAT in ret-
with-signal paths.

Again, afaics we only need these compat checks because regs->ax could be
changed by 32-bit debugger without sign-extension. And TS_I386_REGS_POKED
means that if TS_COMPAT is not set, then the debugger should have also
changed regs->orig_ax. This mostly works, but imo too fragile.

Currently we have the same check in get_nr_restart_syscall() but it is
even more broken (see the patch/changelog), so it should go away and in
this case it would be nice to avoid these checks in do_signal() path too.

Oleg.