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authorMichal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>2013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-08-13 17:57:48 -0700
commitdfa9771a7c4784bafd0673bc7abcee3813088b77 (patch)
tree130ab88dc03c5bc007949e6f98fe39edfccb81f7 /arch
parent41bb3476b361ef38576cf9d539b19bae2ac93167 (diff)
microblaze: fix clone syscall
Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone"). The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the 4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size. The incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd slot. This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc code will work correctly. All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/Kconfig6
-rw-r--r--arch/microblaze/Kconfig2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 8d2ae24b9f4a..1feb169274fe 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -407,6 +407,12 @@ config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
help
Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
+config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
+ bool
+ help
+ Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
+ not the 5th one.
+
config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
bool
help
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
index d22a4ecffff4..4fab52294d98 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ config MICROBLAZE
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
select GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
- select CLONE_BACKWARDS
+ select CLONE_BACKWARDS3
config SWAP
def_bool n