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* [PATCH] m68k: correct setting of struct user.u_ar0
@ 2008-02-07 22:10 Geert Uytterhoeven
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven @ 2008-02-07 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, H. Peter Anvin
  Cc: Linux/m68k, Linux Kernel Development

Commit 6e16d89bcd668a95eb22add24c02d80890232b66

    Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0
    
    struct user.u_ar0 is defined to contain a pointer offset on all
    architectures in which it is defined (all architectures which define an
    a.out format except SPARC.) However, it has a pointer type in the headers,
    which is pointless -- <asm/user.h> is not exported to userspace, and it
    just makes the code messy.
    
    Redefine the field as "unsigned long" (which is the same size as a pointer
    on all Linux architectures) and change the setting code to user offsetof()
    instead of hand-coded arithmetic.

forgot to change the m68k setting code, causing the following compiler warning:

    arch/m68k/kernel/process.c:338: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
---
 arch/m68k/kernel/process.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, 
 	if (dump->start_stack < TASK_SIZE)
 		dump->u_ssize = ((unsigned long) (TASK_SIZE - dump->start_stack)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-	dump->u_ar0 = (struct user_regs_struct *)((int)&dump->regs - (int)dump);
+	dump->u_ar0 = offsetof(struct user, regs);
 	sw = ((struct switch_stack *)regs) - 1;
 	dump->regs.d1 = regs->d1;
 	dump->regs.d2 = regs->d2;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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