x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins
authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:17:55 +0000 (21:47 +0530)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:59:04 +0000 (12:59 -0800)
commit42dfc43ee5999ac64284476ea0ac6c937587cf2b
tree4527353aa4f9cfedc09142f2a9da418c90b618e5
parentb01543dfe67bb1d191998e90d20534dc354de059
x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins

task->thread.usersp is unusable immediately after a binary is exec()'d
until it undergoes a context switch cycle. The start_thread() function
called during execve() saves the stack pointer into pt_regs and into
old_rsp, but fails to record it into task->thread.usersp.

Because of this, KSTK_ESP(task) returns an incorrect value for a
64-bit program until the task is switched out and back in since
switch_to swaps %rsp values in and out into task->thread.usersp.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330273075-2949-1-git-send-email-siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c