Ingo Molnar 5d119b2c9a x86: fix execve with -fstack-protect
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu:

> what happens here is that gcc treats the argument area as owned by the
> callee, not the caller and is allowed to do certain tricks. for ssp it
> will make a copy of the struct passed by value into the local variable
> area and pass *its* address down, and it won't copy it back into the
> original instance stored in the argument area.
>
> so once sys_execve returns, the pt_regs passed by value hasn't at all
> changed and its default content will cause a nice double fault (FWIW,
> this part took me the longest to debug, being down with cold didn't
> help it either ;).

To fix this we pass in pt_regs by pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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