Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:51:48 -0700 | Subject | Re: patch for IA64: fix do_sys32_msgrcv bad address error. |
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>>>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:46:40 +0530, "R Sreelatha" <rsreelat@in.ibm.com> said:
R> In sys_ia32.c file, in the do_sys32_msgrcv() function call, the R> value of ipck.msgp is interpreted as a 64 bit address, whereas it R> is a 32 bit address. Hence, do_sys32_msgrcv() finally returns R> EFAULT(bad address) error. The patch below takes care of this by R> type casting ipck.msgp to type u32. The patch is created for R> 2.5.32 version of the kernel.
Yes, this was obviously broken. I committed the attached patch to my 2.5 tree.
--david
# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: Linux kernel tree # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: # ChangeSet 1.532 -> 1.533 # arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c 1.18 -> 1.19 # # The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log # -------------------------------------------- # 02/09/05 davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com 1.533 # ia64: Fix x86 struct ipc_kludge (reported by R Sreelatha, fix proposed by # Dave Miller). # -------------------------------------------- # diff -Nru a/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c b/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c --- a/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c Thu Sep 5 09:51:05 2002 +++ b/arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c Thu Sep 5 09:51:05 2002 @@ -2111,8 +2111,8 @@ }; struct ipc_kludge { - struct msgbuf *msgp; - long msgtyp; + u32 msgp; + s32 msgtyp; }; #define SEMOP 1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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