[PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Copy whole EXTRA context

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Feb 7 10:54:20 PST 2023


On Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:30:44 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> When copying the EXTRA context our calculation of the amount of data we
> need to copy is incorrect, we only calculate the amount of data needed
> within uc_mcontext.__reserved, not taking account of the fixed portion
> of the context. Add in the offset of the reserved data so that we copy
> everything we should.
> 
> This will only cause test failures in cases where the last context in the
> EXTRA context is smaller than the missing data since we don't currently
> validate any of the register data and all the buffers we copy into are
> statically allocated so default to zero meaning that if we walk beyond the
> end of what we copied we'll encounter what looks like a context with magic
> and length both 0 which is a valid terminator record.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/kselftest), thanks!

[1/1] kselftest/arm64: Copy whole EXTRA context
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/6012b8202022

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Catalin




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