Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

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Thanks very much for thinking about this and providing a revised candidate patch.

Sadly, the effect of the patch is the same as the most recent candidate patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge: The EDID transfer still comes up all zeros.

This is very perplexing to me. If I take the code that appears in 2.6.18's vm86.c, and simply put #if 0 around the call to audit_syscall_exit I get good data.

If this is indeed a correct minimal correction to the audit_syscall_exit code, then perhaps there's some other condition being exercised. I guess my next step is to take the whole pt_regs patch (commit 49d26b6eaa8e970c8cf6e299e6ccba2474191bf5) from kernel.org and see if that has a beneficial effect.

-Bill

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On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

On 09/25/2007 07:38 PM, William Cattey wrote:

I'd feel a lot more confident we were on the right track if I could just correctly patch Fitzhardinge's cleanup into the test setup I have now.


I think you need to zero both registers if you're using 2.6.16, and force
%eax as the source so it doesn't choose %ebp?

--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c
@@ -306,19 +334,19 @@ static void do_sys_vm86(struct kernel_vm86_struct *info, struct task_struct *tsk
 	tsk->thread.screen_bitmap = info->screen_bitmap;
 	if (info->flags & VM86_SCREEN_BITMAP)
 		mark_screen_rdonly(tsk->mm);
- __asm__ __volatile__("xorl %eax,%eax; movl %eax,%fs; movl %eax,%gs \n\t");
-	__asm__ __volatile__("movl %%eax, %0\n" :"=r"(eax));

/*call audit_syscall_exit since we do not exit via the normal paths */
 	if (unlikely(current->audit_context))
-		audit_syscall_exit(AUDITSC_RESULT(eax), eax);
+		audit_syscall_exit(AUDITSC_RESULT(0), 0);

 	__asm__ __volatile__(
 		"movl %0,%%esp\n\t"
 		"movl %1,%%ebp\n\t"
+		"mov  %2, %%fs\n\t"
+		"mov  %2, %%gs\n\t"
 		"jmp resume_userspace"
 		: /* no outputs */
-		:"r" (&info->regs), "r" (task_thread_info(tsk)));
+		:"r" (&info->regs), "r" (task_thread_info(tsk)), "a" (0));
 	/* we never return here */
 }


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