Re: [uml-devel] SYSCALL, ptrace and syscall restart breakages (Re:[RFC] weird crap with vdso on uml/i386)

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> Just to make sure I'm grokking this correctly - we want to use int $0x80
> only for the SYSCALL variant in __kernel_vsyscall, right? Not for all
> 32-bit syscalls on a 64-bit kernel.

Um...  The problem is, syscall restart with SYSCALL insn is badly broken;
we end up with arg2 (expected by SYSCALL in %ebp) overwritten with arg6
by IRET path.  With obvious nasty results.

In __kernel_vsyscall() the problem is possible to deal with; there we control
the code around that sucker.  It's SYSCALL in 32bit binary outside of
vdso32 that causes real PITA...
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