Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:21:02 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Clear DF before calling signal handler | |
* Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> The Linux kernel currently does not clear the direction flag before
> calling a signal handler, whereas the x86/x86-64 ABI requires that.
> This become a real problem with gcc version 4.3, which assumes that
> the direction flag is correctly cleared at the entry of a function.
>
> This patches changes the setup_frame() functions to clear the
> direction before entering the signal handler.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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