/*
* Access to user system call parameters and results
*
- * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
* modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
-static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,
- struct pt_regs *regs)
+/*
+ * Only the low 32 bits of orig_ax are meaningful, so we return int.
+ * This importantly ignores the high bits on 64-bit, so comparisons
+ * sign-extend the low 32 bits.
+ */
+static inline int syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- /*
- * We always sign-extend a -1 value being set here,
- * so this is always either -1L or a syscall number.
- */
return regs->orig_ax;
}