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SubjectRe: [Linux-ia64] Re: patch for IA64: fix do_sys32_msgrcv bad address error.
Yes, but Dave Millier claims that this patch is still broken, he says the
fix needs to be in `ipc_kludge'. I don't have access to my source tree
until this evening, have you looked at this?

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:51:48AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> 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
>
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