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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
index d485232f1e9f..62d4111c1c54 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ struct sigcontext_64 {
__u16 cs;
__u16 gs;
__u16 fs;
- __u16 __pad0;
+ __u16 ss;
__u64 err;
__u64 trapno;
__u64 oldmask;
@@ -341,9 +341,37 @@ struct sigcontext {
__u64 rip;
__u64 eflags; /* RFLAGS */
__u16 cs;
+
+ /*
+ * Prior to 2.5.64 ("[PATCH] x86-64 updates for 2.5.64-bk3"),
+ * Linux saved and restored fs and gs in these slots. This
+ * was counterproductive, as fsbase and gsbase were never
+ * saved, so arch_prctl was presumably unreliable.
+ *
+ * These slots should never be reused without extreme caution:
+ *
+ * - Some DOSEMU versions stash fs and gs in these slots manually,
+ * thus overwriting anything the kernel expects to be preserved
+ * in these slots.
+ *
+ * - If these slots are ever needed for any other purpose,
+ * there is some risk that very old 64-bit binaries could get
+ * confused. I doubt that many such binaries still work,
+ * though, since the same patch in 2.5.64 also removed the
+ * 64-bit set_thread_area syscall, so it appears that there
+ * is no TLS API beyond modify_ldt that works in both pre-
+ * and post-2.5.64 kernels.
+ *
+ * If the kernel ever adds explicit fs, gs, fsbase, and gsbase
+ * save/restore, it will most likely need to be opt-in and use
+ * different context slots.
+ */
__u16 gs;
__u16 fs;
- __u16 __pad0;
+ union {
+ __u16 ss; /* If UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS */
+ __u16 __pad0; /* Alias name for old (!UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS) user-space */
+ };
__u64 err;
__u64 trapno;
__u64 oldmask;