Re: i386 entry.S problems

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> 24.09.04 16:57:08 >>>
>On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> There appear to be two problems in i386's entry.S:
>> 
>> (1) With CONFIG_REGPARM, lcall7 and lcall27 did not work (they pass
the
>> parameters to the actual handler procedure on the stack).
>
>I wonder why we still have the lcall7/lcall27 entry points in the
>kernel; nothing can legitemately use them and in the last few years
they
>have only caused a few security issues. Can I ask why you didn't just
>remove this code from the kernel ?

I wondered about this, too. But I assumed that somewhere something
might live that still uses it. Since I don't know (and I found the entry
useful for some other test I had to do), I didn't dare to...

Jan
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