As pointed out by Linus it is useless now because entry.S should handle it correctly in all cases. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -274,11 +274,6 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child,
return -EIO;
value &= 0xffff;
break;
- case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, rip):
- /* Check if the new RIP address is canonical */
- if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child))
- return -EIO;
- break;
}
put_stack_long(child, regno - sizeof(struct pt_regs), value);
return 0;