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[Bug testsuite/15625] unprivileged_embedded_C test confused by stub registers.stp


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15625

Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Jim Keniston from comment #0)
> **Should the functions in registers.stp be marked unprivileged?  They
> provide read-only access to CPU registers and function args.

Unprivileged functions shouldn't leak kernel info though, so these functions
would need to restrict themselves to CONTEXT->uregs in this mode, and only for
one's own processes.

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