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| author | Andi Kleen | 2006-04-11 12:54:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-04-11 06:38:57 -0700 |
| commit | 97a4d00388db4f0bfa37425b31d7d9751ea649db (patch) | |
| tree | 3713eb2e7e69461108899b799b8030ae30cb2c14 /arch/x86_64 | |
| parent | 0fcd270901f731342df64816f277ae7adbd67130 (diff) | |
[PATCH] x86_64: Remove check for canonical RIP
As pointed out by Linus it is useless now because entry.S should
handle it correctly in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c index d44b2c1e63a6..da8e7903d817 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -274,11 +274,6 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child, return -EIO; value &= 0xffff; break; - case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, rip): - /* Check if the new RIP address is canonical */ - if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child)) - return -EIO; - break; } put_stack_long(child, regno - sizeof(struct pt_regs), value); return 0; |