Re: [PATCH 05/20] signal/mips: Update (_save|_restore)_fp_context to fail with -EFAULT

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"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> When an instruction to save or restore a register from the stack fails
>> in _save_fp_context or _restore_fp_context return with -EFAULT.  This
>> change was made to r2300_fpu.S[1] but it looks like it got lost with
>> the introduction of EX2[2].  This is also what the other implementation
>> of _save_fp_context and _restore_fp_context in r4k_fpu.S does, and
>> what is needed for the callers to be able to handle the error.
>
>  Umm, right, good catch, thanks!  I think this ought to be backported.
>
> Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>

I will add a CC stable.  So it can be backported after it is merged.

Eric



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