Re: Bug: retry of clone() on Alpha can result in zeroed process thread pointer

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On 07/29/2014 06:51 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:23:45PM -1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> I don't think this will help, but it's worth a test, prior to totally
>> re-writing entry.S.  There's a chance of confusion of the value of regs->r0 if
>> there is in fact no error.
> 
> No, it did not help.  The glibc nptl/tst-eintr3 test still occassionally
> sefgaults and that is occurring because rduniq returned a NULL pointer.

Another try.


r~



diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
index 6cec288..2d6c0e4 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ do_signal
                        case ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK:
                                /* Set v0 to the restart_syscall and replay */
                                regs->r0 = __NR_restart_syscall;
+                               regs->r19 = r19;
                                regs->pc -= 4;
                                break;
                        }

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