Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64,entry: Fix RCX for traced syscalls

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 10:43:57AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Sure, but the code would be simpler if we shoved that value in the
> EFLAGS slot.

There probably is some reason for that but it's not like we can change
it :-)

> Hmm.  I added and pushed a test for fork, but that didn't turn
> anything up.  And I don't see any bugs in the code.
> 
> I booted 3.18 plus this patch with context tracking forced on on my
> laptop, and something seems to have gone wrong.

Well, I ran it on -rc2 + tip/master and it did trigger sporadically
yesterday but was unable to trigger something today.

I'll redo the whole games tomorrow.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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