From 6e16d89bcd668a95eb22add24c02d80890232b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:15:57 -0800 Subject: Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit struct user.u_ar0 is defined to contain a pointer offset on all architectures in which it is defined (all architectures which define an a.out format except SPARC.) However, it has a pointer type in the headers, which is pointless -- is not exported to userspace, and it just makes the code messy. Redefine the field as "unsigned long" (which is the same size as a pointer on all Linux architectures) and change the setting code to user offsetof() instead of hand-coded arithmetic. Cc: Linux Arch Mailing List Cc: Bryan Wu Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Russell King Cc: Lennert Buytenhek Cc: Håvard Skinnemoen Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Hirokazu Takata Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/binfmt_aout.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/binfmt_aout.c') diff --git a/fs/binfmt_aout.c b/fs/binfmt_aout.c index 7596e1e94cde..7f65e71bf859 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_aout.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_aout.c @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int aout_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, u current->flags |= PF_DUMPCORE; strncpy(dump.u_comm, current->comm, sizeof(dump.u_comm)); #ifndef __sparc__ - dump.u_ar0 = (void *)(((unsigned long)(&dump.regs)) - ((unsigned long)(&dump))); + dump.u_ar0 = offsetof(struct user, regs); #endif dump.signal = signr; dump_thread(regs, &dump); -- cgit v1.2.1