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SubjectPATCH - x86-64 signed-compare bug, was Re: select() setting ERESTARTNOHAND (514).
On Wednesday January 10, jafo@tummy.com wrote:
>
> In looking at the Linux code for ERESTARTNOHAND, I see that
> include/linux/errno.h says this errno should never make it to the user.
> However, in this instance we ARE seeing it. Looking around on google shows
> others are seeing it as well, though hits are few.
..
>
> Thoughts?

Just a 'me too' at this point.
The X server on my shiny new notebook (Core 2 Duo) occasionally dies
with 'select' repeatedly returning ERESTARTNOHAND. It is most
annoying!

You don't mention in the Email which kernel version you use but I see
from the web page you reference it is 2.6.19.1. I'm using
2.6.18.something.

I thought I'd have a quick look at the code, comparing i386 to x86-64
and guess what I found.....

On x86-64, regs->rax is "unsigned long", so the following is
needed....

I haven't tried it yet.

NeilBrown


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

### Diffstat output
./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff .prev/arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c ./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c
--- .prev/arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c 2007-01-11 11:33:27.000000000 +1100
+++ ./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c 2007-01-11 11:34:01.000000000 +1100
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ handle_signal(unsigned long sig, siginfo
/* Are we from a system call? */
if ((long)regs->orig_rax >= 0) {
/* If so, check system call restarting.. */
- switch (regs->rax) {
+ switch ((long)regs->rax) {
case -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK:
case -ERESTARTNOHAND:
regs->rax = -EINTR;
-
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