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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/process.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c index 5dd03757f50c..3d7e0c8e9925 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -424,18 +424,7 @@ int copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long esp, struct task_struct *tsk; int err; - childregs = ((struct pt_regs *) (THREAD_SIZE + (unsigned long) p->thread_info)) - 1; - /* - * The below -8 is to reserve 8 bytes on top of the ring0 stack. - * This is necessary to guarantee that the entire "struct pt_regs" - * is accessable even if the CPU haven't stored the SS/ESP registers - * on the stack (interrupt gate does not save these registers - * when switching to the same priv ring). - * Therefore beware: accessing the xss/esp fields of the - * "struct pt_regs" is possible, but they may contain the - * completely wrong values. - */ - childregs = (struct pt_regs *) ((unsigned long) childregs - 8); + childregs = task_pt_regs(p); *childregs = *regs; childregs->eax = 0; childregs->esp = esp; @@ -540,12 +529,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_thread); */ int dump_task_regs(struct task_struct *tsk, elf_gregset_t *regs) { - struct pt_regs ptregs; - - ptregs = *(struct pt_regs *) - ((unsigned long)tsk->thread_info + - /* see comments in copy_thread() about -8 */ - THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(ptregs) - 8); + struct pt_regs ptregs = *task_pt_regs(tsk); ptregs.xcs &= 0xffff; ptregs.xds &= 0xffff; ptregs.xes &= 0xffff; |