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SubjectRe: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
> currently only x86 and mips provide one. Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
> and switch all architectures over to it. Instead of doing various
> user copy hacks compat_sys_ustat just reimplements sys_ustat as
> it's trivial. This was suggested by Arnd Bergmann.
>
> Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
> stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
> data writen by the syscall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks like this got lost?

-Eric

>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S 2008-11-28 14:09:01.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S 2008-11-28 14:09:16.000000000 +0530
> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ ia32_sys_call_table:
> .quad sys32_olduname
> .quad sys_umask /* 60 */
> .quad sys_chroot
> - .quad sys32_ustat
> + .quad compat_sys_ustat
> .quad sys_dup2
> .quad sys_getppid
> .quad sys_getpgrp /* 65 */

....


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