Re: [PATCH v3] microblaze: Fix clone syscall

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:01:48 +0200 Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze
> that was introduced in this patch:
> "microblaze: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone"
> (sha1: f3268edbe6fe0ce56e62c6d6b14640aeb04864b7)
> 
> 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.

x86_64 allnoconfig generates screenfuls of

In file included from fs/signalfd.c:31:
include/linux/syscalls.h:805:5: warning: "CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3" is not defined

> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> @@ -802,9 +802,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_vfork(void);
>  asmlinkage long sys_clone(unsigned long, unsigned long, int __user *, int,
>  	       int __user *);
>  #else
> +#if CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3

Presumably ifdef here will fix that.  Please redo, retest and resend?


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