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-rw-r--r--board/qemu/m68k-mcf5208/patches/linux/m68knommu-fix-signal.patch45
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/board/qemu/m68k-mcf5208/patches/linux/m68knommu-fix-signal.patch b/board/qemu/m68k-mcf5208/patches/linux/m68knommu-fix-signal.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b56994b239..0000000000
--- a/board/qemu/m68k-mcf5208/patches/linux/m68knommu-fix-signal.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-m68knommu: fix user a5 register being overwritten
-
-On no-MMU systems the application a5 register can be overwitten with the
-address of the process data segment when processing application signals.
-For flat format applications compiled with full absolute relocation this
-effectively corrupts the a5 register on signal processing - and this very
-quickly leads to process crash and often takes out the whole system with
-a panic as well.
-
-This has no effect on flat format applications compiled with the more
-common PIC methods (such as -msep-data). These format applications reserve
-a5 for the pointer to the data segment anyway - so it doesn't change it.
-
-A long time ago the a5 register was used in the code packed into the user
-stack to enable signal return processing. And so it had to be restored on
-end of signal cleanup processing back to the original a5 user value. This
-was historically done by saving away a5 in the sigcontext structure. At
-some point (a long time back it seems) the a5 restore process was changed
-and it was hard coded to put the user data segment address directly into a5.
-Which is ok for the common PIC compiled application case, but breaks the
-full relocation application code.
-
-We no longer use this type of signal handling mechanism and so we don't
-need to do anything special to save and restore a5 at all now. So remove the
-code that hard codes a5 to the address of the user data segment.
-
-Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
----
- arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c | 1 -
- 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
-index 2dcee3a..9202f82 100644
---- a/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
-+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
-@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ static inline int frame_extra_sizes(int f)
-
- static inline void adjustformat(struct pt_regs *regs)
- {
-- ((struct switch_stack *)regs - 1)->a5 = current->mm->start_data;
- /*
- * set format byte to make stack appear modulo 4, which it will
- * be when doing the rte
---
-1.9.1
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