Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

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William Cattey wrote:
> Thanks very much for responding.
>
> From your two replies, I crafted the attached patch.
> Alas, the EDID transfer comes up all zeros.
> I see two possible causes of this behavior:
>
> 1. I misunderstood how you intended the file to be modified.
> 2. The fix for my bug is NOT in correcting the audit call, but instead
> from some other fix, perhaps from the other aspect that you worked on.
>
> I know that when I surrounded the audit_syscall_exit with #if 0 I got
> correct EDID fetches, so the most likely cause is #1, that I didn't
> correctly incorporate your understanding of correct operation of the
> call to audit_syscall_exit.
>
> Here's my patch.  Where did I screw up?

Not sure, it looks OK to me. I guess it could be something else that got
fixed in that change; I'll have another look.

Can you explain again what works and what doesn't?  Do you have auditing
enabled, or does it break things anyway?

    J
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