Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0

struct user.u_ar0 is defined to contain a pointer offset on all
architectures in which it is defined (all architectures which define an
a.out format except SPARC.) However, it has a pointer type in the headers,
which is pointless -- <asm/user.h> is not exported to userspace, and it
just makes the code messy.

Redefine the field as "unsigned long" (which is the same size as a pointer
on all Linux architectures) and change the setting code to user offsetof()
instead of hand-coded arithmetic.

Cc: Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-alpha/user.h b/include/asm-alpha/user.h
index 7e417fc9d491..a4eb6a4ca8d1 100644
--- a/include/asm-alpha/user.h
+++ b/include/asm-alpha/user.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct user {
         unsigned long   start_data;             /* data starting address */
         unsigned long   start_stack;            /* stack starting address */
         long int        signal;                 /* signal causing core dump */
-        struct regs *   u_ar0;                  /* help gdb find registers */
+        unsigned long   u_ar0;                  /* help gdb find registers */
         unsigned long   magic;                  /* identifies a core file */
         char            u_comm[32];             /* user command name */
 };