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SubjectRe: pt_regs leak into userspace (was Re: [PATCH v3 20/71] ARC: Signal handling)
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On 11 February 2013 08:26, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote:

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> The only downside of this patch is that userspace signal stack grows in size,
> since signal frame only cares about scratch regs (pt_regs), but has to accommodate
> unused placeholder for callee regs too by virtue of using user_regs_struct.

Is this really true? Don't setcontext and friends require that _all_
the registers be part of sigcontext?

/Jonas


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