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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:48:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: fix detection of 32-bit user mode
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > On Aug 23, 2019, at 5:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > >>>> On Aug 23, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>>> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, Sebastian Mayr wrote:
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> -static inline int sizeof_long(void)
> > >>>>>> +static inline int sizeof_long(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > >>>>>> {
> > >>>>>> -    return in_ia32_syscall() ? 4 : 8;
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> This wants a comment.
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> +    return user_64bit_mode(regs) ? 8 : 4;
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> The more simpler one liner is to check
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>   test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)
> > >>> 
> > >>> I still want to finish killing TIF_IA32 some day.  Let’s please not add new users.
> > >> 
> > >> Well, yes and no. This needs to be backported ....
> > > 
> > > And TBH the magic in user_64bit_mode() is not pretty either.
> > > 
> > It’s only magic on Xen. I should probably stick a
> > cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) in there instead.
> 
> For backporting sake I really prefer the TIF version. One usage site more
> is not the end of the world. We can add the user_64bit_mode() variant from
> Sebastian on top as a cleanup right away so mainline is clean.

Bah, scratch it. I take the proper one right away.

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