On 8/31/05, liyu@WAN <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
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> I am implemnting one ioctl() in one character device.
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> That need know instruction pointer of user space. I am on i386
> platform.
> I can sure I am in process context. and enter kernel by system call way.
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> As I known, in default case, each task have one kernel stack, its length
> is THREAD_SIZE(2 pages), and current_thread_info() is at its top. the
> struct pt_regs is at bottom of this stack.
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> so I write the code like here:
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> pt_regs = ((struct pt_regs *)(THREAD_SIZE + current_thread_info()))+1;
try doing the following, I amnot sure of it, just try it.
pt_regs = (struct pt_regs *) (((int *)(THREAD_SIZE + current)) -
(sizeof(pt_regs) + 1));
> return pt_regs->eip;
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> but it do not work! even, I get segment fault and kernel Oops at
> sometime.
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> Also, I am sure current_thread_info() return right value of current
> user task.
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> Any idea on here?
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> thanks
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