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authorMichal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>2013-08-13 16:00:53 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-20 08:43:02 -0700
commit4f01c72ef36d3305d6273fe7f1f6670c52745c3d (patch)
treeab71ffb7a755c453f84a2aaf37fe285d0bcdcd31 /kernel
parent0dcf19b4fb41449de4d1f953f86aa6a90accdff5 (diff)
microblaze: fix clone syscall
commit dfa9771a7c4784bafd0673bc7abcee3813088b77 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 987b28a1f01..ffbc0904794 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1675,6 +1675,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, newsp, unsigned long, clone_flags,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
int __user *, child_tidptr,
int, tls_val)
+#elif defined(CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE6(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
+ int, stack_size,
+ int __user *, parent_tidptr,
+ int __user *, child_tidptr,
+ int, tls_val)
#else
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,