From 6e16d89bcd668a95eb22add24c02d80890232b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:15:57 -0800
Subject: Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0
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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.
Cc: Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/asm-h8300/user.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
(limited to 'include/asm-h8300/user.h')
diff --git a/include/asm-h8300/user.h b/include/asm-h8300/user.h
index 6c64f99af3e..14a9e18950f 100644
--- a/include/asm-h8300/user.h
+++ b/include/asm-h8300/user.h
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ struct user{
esp register. */
long int signal; /* Signal that caused the core dump. */
int reserved; /* No longer used */
- struct user_regs_struct *u_ar0;
- /* Used by gdb to help find the values for */
+ unsigned long u_ar0; /* Used by gdb to help find the values for */
/* the registers. */
unsigned long magic; /* To uniquely identify a core file */
char u_comm[32]; /* User command that was responsible */
--
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