On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index b553ed8..344b63f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -447,15 +447,14 @@ sysenter_exit:
sysenter_audit:
testl $(_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags(%ebp)
jnz syscall_trace_entry
- addl $4,%esp
- CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
- movl %esi,4(%esp) /* 5th arg: 4th syscall arg */
- movl %edx,(%esp) /* 4th arg: 3rd syscall arg */
- /* %ecx already in %ecx 3rd arg: 2nd syscall arg */
- movl %ebx,%edx /* 2nd arg: 1st syscall arg */
- /* %eax already in %eax 1st arg: syscall number */
+ /* movl PT_ECX(%esp), %ecx already set, a1: 3nd arg to audit */
+ /* movl PT_EAX(%esp), %eax already set, syscall number: 1st arg to audit */
+ pushl_cfi %esi /* a3: 5th arg */
+ pushl_cfi %edx /* a2: 4th arg */
+ movl %ebx, %edx /* ebx/a0: 2nd arg to audit */
call __audit_syscall_entry
- pushl_cfi %ebx
+ popl_cfi %ecx /* get that remapped edx off the stack */
+ popl_cfi %ecx /* get that remapped esi off the stack */
Why use pop instead of simply adjusting esp and CFI by 8?
Thanks,
tglx