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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] alpha/ptrace: Add missing switch_stack frames
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 03:49:44PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Someone might want or try to read them in the case of exit.  Which
> without some change will result in a read of other kernel stack content
> on alpha.

And someone might want a pony.  Again, why bother restoring those,
_especially_ in case of exit(2)?

> Plus there are coredumps which definitely want to read everything.

Huh?  In case of coredump we are going to have come through
$work_notifysig:
        mov     $sp, $16
	DO_SWITCH_STACK
	jsr     $26, do_work_pending
so they *do* have full pt_regs saved.  What's the problem?