Re: [PATCH x86 for review III] [12/29] x86_64: 32-bit ptrace mangles sixth system call argument

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 17:27:09 EST



> Didn't we have problems with this exact approach before? This one was dropped
> because it caused 32-bit programs to crash:
> http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/broken-out/x86-64-ptrace-ia32-bp-fix.patch
>
> See:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/09/16/261
>
> for the one I proposed instead.

Yes you're right. I dropped it for now.

-Andi
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