3.2.76-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e967ef022e00bb7c2e5b1a42007abfdd52055050 upstream. When 32-bit MIPS userspace invokes a syscall indirectly via syscall(number, arg1, ..., arg7), the kernel looks up the actual syscall based on the given number, shifts the other arguments to the left, and jumps to the syscall. If the syscall is interrupted by a signal and indicates it needs to be restarted by the kernel (by returning ERESTARTNOINTR for example), the syscall must be called directly, since the number is no longer the first argument, and the other arguments are now staged for a direct call. Before shifting the arguments, store the syscall number in pt_regs->regs[2]. This gets copied temporarily into pt_regs->regs[0] after the syscall returns. If the syscall needs to be restarted, handle_signal()/do_signal() copies the number back to pt_regs->reg[2], which ends up in $v0 once control returns to userspace. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8929/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ illegal_syscall: sll t1, t0, 3 beqz v0, einval lw t2, sys_call_table(t1) # syscall routine + sw a0, PT_R2(sp) # call routine directly on restart /* Some syscalls like execve get their arguments from struct pt_regs and claim zero arguments in the syscall table. Thus we have to --- a/arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ LEAF(sys32_syscall) dsll t1, t0, 3 beqz v0, einval ld t2, sys_call_table(t1) # syscall routine + sd a0, PT_R2(sp) # call routine directly on restart move a0, a1 # shift argument registers move a1, a2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html