* H. J. Lu: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 6:19 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> * Dave Martin: >> >> > You're right that this has implications: for i386, libc probably pulls >> > more arguments off the stack than are really there in some situations. >> > This isn't a new problem though. There are already generic prctls with >> > fewer than 4 args that are used on x86. >> >> As originally posted, glibc prctl would have to know that it has to pull >> an u64 argument off the argument list for ARCH_X86_CET_DISABLE. But >> then the u64 argument is a problem for arch_prctl as well. >> > > Argument of ARCH_X86_CET_DISABLE is int and passed in register.
The commit message and the C source say otherwise, I think (not sure about the C source, not a kernel hacker). Thanks, Florian
