Re: [PATCH] i386/audit: stop scribbling on the stack frame
On 10/23/2014 12:38 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
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> After the call __audit_syscall_entry aren't they already polluted?
> Isn't that the reason we need to reload EAX?
Well, I guess EAX is special...
Because system calls are "asmlinkage", all the parameters are on the
stack, but %eax is used as the index into the system call table. This
should thus be fine until we get rid of regparm(0) entirely, if that
ever happens.
-hpa