From: Eric Saint Etienne <eric.saint.etienne@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:32:41 +0000 > When returning from the user probe code into userspace process, PC & > NPC are > truncated to 32 bits. > > Due to shared libraries getting loaded very high in the virtual > address space of > the process, placing a user probe inside a shared library makes the > kernel > return into the process at the wrong address, causing it to seg'fault > most of > the time. > > This patch prevents truncating PC and NPC. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Saint Etienne <eric.saint.etienne@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: David Aldridge <david.j.aldridge@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
