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SubjectRe: [ 027/102] x86, vm86: fix VM86 syscalls: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx(...)
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:49:30PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:35:42PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> This is seriously wrong. For 3.9 you _need_ asmlinkage_protect() in that
> thing; by the time when that went into the tree, mainline already had
> it generated automatically by SYSCALL_DEFINE, so there was no point in
> that part of patch - the switch to SYSCALL_DEFINE alone did the job.
> For 3.9 it's very much needed; as the matter of fact, in 3.9 that commit
> is a no-op in the form you took.
>
> We can grab all prereqs into 3.9-stable (there's not that much of those),
> but that would be much more intrusive than the variant adding explicit
> asmlinkage_protect() in those two syscalls.

Ok, Alexander was saying something was off here.

Can someone send me just the needed patch to get this working properly,
and I will be glad to drop this one from the 3.9.x tree.

thanks,

greg k-h


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