From 864a0922dd128392467611d9857e5138c6a91999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:16:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state Before the kernel_thread was converted into "C" we had pt_regs::ss set to __KERNEL_DS (by SAVE_ALL asm macro). Though I must admit I didn't find any *explicit* load of %ss from this structure the better to be on a safe side and set it to a known value. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Christian Kujau Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Brian Gerst LKML-Reference: <1263377768-19600-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index c6ee241c8a98..02c3ee013ccd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -288,6 +288,8 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) regs.es = __USER_DS; regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU; regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY; +#else + regs.ss = __KERNEL_DS; #endif regs.orig_ax = -1; -- GitLab