MIPS: Fix restart of indirect syscalls
commit e967ef02 upstream. When 32-bit MIPS userspace invokes a syscall indirectly via syscall(number, arg1, ..., arg7), the kernel looks up the actual syscall based on the given number, shifts the other arguments to the left, and jumps to the syscall. If the syscall is interrupted by a signal and indicates it needs to be restarted by the kernel (by returning ERESTARTNOINTR for example), the syscall must be called directly, since the number is no longer the first argument, and the other arguments are now staged for a direct call. Before shifting the arguments, store the syscall number in pt_regs->regs[2]. This gets copied temporarily into pt_regs->regs[0] after the syscall returns. If the syscall needs to be restarted, handle_signal()/do_signal() copies the number back to pt_regs->reg[2], which ends up in $v0 once control returns to userspace. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@skyportsystems.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8929/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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