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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 9bd0087ed16f..22251055c5b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/smap.h>
#include <asm/export.h>
+#include <asm/frame.h>
.section .entry.text, "ax"
@@ -238,6 +239,23 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
END(__switch_to_asm)
/*
+ * The unwinder expects the last frame on the stack to always be at the same
+ * offset from the end of the page, which allows it to validate the stack.
+ * Calling schedule_tail() directly would break that convention because its an
+ * asmlinkage function so its argument has to be pushed on the stack. This
+ * wrapper creates a proper "end of stack" frame header before the call.
+ */
+ENTRY(schedule_tail_wrapper)
+ FRAME_BEGIN
+
+ pushl %eax
+ call schedule_tail
+ popl %eax
+
+ FRAME_END
+ ret
+ENDPROC(schedule_tail_wrapper)
+/*
* A newly forked process directly context switches into this address.
*
* eax: prev task we switched from
@@ -245,9 +263,7 @@ END(__switch_to_asm)
* edi: kernel thread arg
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
- pushl %eax
- call schedule_tail
- popl %eax
+ call schedule_tail_wrapper
testl %ebx, %ebx
jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */