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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2015-09-05 11:07:04 +0200
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2015-09-05 11:08:32 +0200
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Merge linux-block/for-4.3/core into md/for-linux
There were a few conflicts that are fairly easy to resolve. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
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+/*
+ * syscall_nt.c - checks syscalls with NT set
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Andrew Lutomirski
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
+ * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * Some obscure user-space code requires the ability to make system calls
+ * with FLAGS.NT set. Make sure it works.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+# define WIDTH "q"
+#else
+# define WIDTH "l"
+#endif
+
+static unsigned long get_eflags(void)
+{
+ unsigned long eflags;
+ asm volatile ("pushf" WIDTH "\n\tpop" WIDTH " %0" : "=rm" (eflags));
+ return eflags;
+}
+
+static void set_eflags(unsigned long eflags)
+{
+ asm volatile ("push" WIDTH " %0\n\tpopf" WIDTH
+ : : "rm" (eflags) : "flags");
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+ printf("[RUN]\tSet NT and issue a syscall\n");
+ set_eflags(get_eflags() | X86_EFLAGS_NT);
+ syscall(SYS_getpid);
+ if (get_eflags() & X86_EFLAGS_NT) {
+ printf("[OK]\tThe syscall worked and NT is still set\n");
+ return 0;
+ } else {
+ printf("[FAIL]\tThe syscall worked but NT was cleared\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+}
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