Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/signal/64: Add a comment about sigcontext->fs and gs

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Oct 31, 2015 8:25 AM, "Stas Sergeev" <stsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 26.10.2015 04:25, Andy Lutomirski ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>
>> These fields have a strange history.  This tries to document it.
>>
>> This borrows from 9a036b93a344 ("x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs'
>> from sigcontext"), which was reverted by ed596cde9425 ("Revert x86
>> sigcontext cleanups").
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now the strategy about SS is to always save it to the sigcontext.
> This is good because the syscall can clobber it, so the app had
> to be very careful in the past trying to save it by hands.
> How about saving also fs and gs? (without restoring yet)
> If you do, you'll save dosemu a headache of doing any "pre-syscall"
> work. Pre-syscall work is very nasty.
> I haven't checked if the syscall clobber also these or only SS,
> but perhaps saving them by the kernel won't hurt?

There's a bunch of ongoing work about FS and GS.  I want to wait and see.
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