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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: fix detection of 32-bit user mode
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Date:   Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:57:14 -0700
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        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
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        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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> On Aug 23, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>=20
>> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, Sebastian Mayr wrote:
>>>=20
>>> -static inline int sizeof_long(void)
>>> +static inline int sizeof_long(struct pt_regs *regs)
>>> {
>>> -    return in_ia32_syscall() ? 4 : 8;
>>=20
>>  This wants a comment.
>>=20
>>> +    return user_64bit_mode(regs) ? 8 : 4;
>=20
> The more simpler one liner is to check
>=20
>    test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)

I still want to finish killing TIF_IA32 some day.  Let=E2=80=99s please not a=
dd new users.