2004-09-14 18:43:01

by Jeff Dike

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Subject: [PATCH] - UML - fix call to sys_clone

This patch changes the calling convention of clone on i386 to match that of
the host by leaving the fourth argument unused.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>

Index: 2.6.9-rc2/arch/um/kernel/syscall_kern.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.9-rc2.orig/arch/um/kernel/syscall_kern.c 2004-09-14 13:43:32.000000000 -0400
+++ 2.6.9-rc2/arch/um/kernel/syscall_kern.c 2004-09-14 14:00:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -44,17 +44,6 @@
return(ret);
}

-long sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp,
- int *parent_tid, int *child_tid)
-{
- long ret;
-
- current->thread.forking = 1;
- ret = do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, NULL, 0, parent_tid, child_tid);
- current->thread.forking = 0;
- return(ret);
-}
-
long sys_vfork(void)
{
long ret;
Index: 2.6.9-rc2/arch/um/sys-i386/syscalls.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.9-rc2.orig/arch/um/sys-i386/syscalls.c 2004-09-14 13:43:32.000000000 -0400
+++ 2.6.9-rc2/arch/um/sys-i386/syscalls.c 2004-09-14 14:00:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
* Licensed under the GPL
*/

+#include "linux/sched.h"
#include "asm/mman.h"
#include "asm/uaccess.h"
#include "asm/unistd.h"
@@ -56,6 +57,27 @@
return sys_select(a.n, a.inp, a.outp, a.exp, a.tvp);
}

+/* The i386 version skips reading from %esi, the fourth argument. So we must do
+ * this, too.
+ */
+int sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp, int *parent_tid,
+ int unused, int *child_tid)
+{
+ long ret;
+
+ /* XXX: normal arch do here this pass, and also pass the regs to
+ * do_fork, instead of NULL. Currently the arch-independent code
+ * ignores these values, while the UML code (actually it's
+ * copy_thread) does the right thing. But this should change,
+ probably. */
+ /*if (!newsp)
+ newsp = UPT_SP(current->thread.regs);*/
+ current->thread.forking = 1;
+ ret = do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, NULL, 0, parent_tid, child_tid);
+ current->thread.forking = 0;
+ return(ret);
+}
+
/*
* Overrides for Emacs so that we follow Linus's tabbing style.
* Emacs will notice this stuff at the end of the file and automatically