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Commit 83b0b15b authored by Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar Mathieu Desnoyers Committed by Ingo Molnar
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rseq: Remove superfluous rseq_len from task_struct



The rseq system call, when invoked with flags of "0" or
"RSEQ_FLAG_UNREGISTER" values, expects the rseq_len parameter to
be equal to sizeof(struct rseq), which is fixed-size and fixed-layout,
specified in uapi linux/rseq.h.

Expecting a fixed size for rseq_len is a design choice that ensures
multiple libraries and application defining __rseq_abi in the same
process agree on its exact size.

Considering that this size is and will always be the same value, there
is no point in saving this value within task_struct rseq_len. Remove
this field from task_struct.

No change in functionality intended.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305194755.2602-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent bff9504b
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