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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>2010-01-13 10:16:07 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-13 11:23:45 +0100
commit864a0922dd128392467611d9857e5138c6a91999 (patch)
tree1ce4f65ab7ed12d229be35de84b66ea445672522 /arch/x86
parent42590a75019a50012f25a962246498dead428433 (diff)
downloadlinux-864a0922dd128392467611d9857e5138c6a91999.tar.gz
x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state
Before the kernel_thread was converted into "C" we had
pt_regs::ss set to __KERNEL_DS (by SAVE_ALL asm macro).

Though I must admit I didn't find any *explicit* load of
%ss from this structure the better to be on a safe side
and set it to a known value.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263377768-19600-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index c6ee241c8a98..02c3ee013ccd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -288,6 +288,8 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
 	regs.es = __USER_DS;
 	regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
 	regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
+#else
+	regs.ss = __KERNEL_DS;
 #endif
 
 	regs.orig_ax = -1;