[PATCH 2/2] x86_64,signal: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from sigcontext

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Jul 11 2014 - 12:29:53 EST


As far as I can tell, these fields have been set to zero on save and
ignored on restore since Linux was imported into git. Rename them
'__pad1' and '__pad2' to avoid confusion and to allow them to be
recycled some day.

I'm intentionally avoiding calling either of them __pad0: the field
formerly known as __pad0 is now ss.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
index f910cdc..5f0ef11 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ struct sigcontext {
unsigned long ip;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned short cs;
- unsigned short gs;
- unsigned short fs;
+ unsigned short __pad2; /* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
+ unsigned short __pad1; /* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
unsigned short ss;
unsigned long err;
unsigned long trapno;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
index 076b11f..df9908b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ struct sigcontext {
__u64 rip;
__u64 eflags; /* RFLAGS */
__u16 cs;
- __u16 gs;
- __u16 fs;
+ __u16 __pad2; /* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
+ __u16 __pad1; /* Was called fs, but was always zero. */
__u16 ss;
__u64 err;
__u64 trapno;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 08d7a9e..a1867ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ int setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, void __user *fpstate,
#else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
put_user_ex(regs->flags, &sc->flags);
put_user_ex(regs->cs, &sc->cs);
- put_user_ex(0, &sc->gs);
- put_user_ex(0, &sc->fs);
+ put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad2);
+ put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad1);
put_user_ex(regs->ss, &sc->ss);
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */

--
1.9.3

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