this change is in preparation for amd64. the systab calling
convention was also changed to return uintptr (as segattach
returns a pointer) and the arguments are now passed as
va_list which handles amd64 arguments properly (all arguments
are passed in 64bit quantities on the stack, tho the upper
part will not be initialized when the element is smaller
than 8 bytes).
this is partial. xalloc needs to be converted in the future.
access to non standard serial port COM3 at i/o port 0x200 causes
kernel panic on some machines (Toshiba Sattelite 1415-S115). also,
some machines have gameport at 0x200.
i readded uartisa to the pcf and pccpuf kernel configurations so
one can use plan9.ini to add non standard uarts like:
uart2=type=isa port=0x200 irq=5
the syscallno check in syscallfmt() was wrong. the unsigned
syscall number was cast to an signed integer. so negative
values would pass the check provoking bad memory access from
kernel. the check also has an off by one. one has to check
syscallno >= nsyscalls instead of syscallno > nsyscalls.
access to the p->syscalltrace string was not protected
from modification in devproc. you could awake the process
and cause it to free the string giving an opportunity for
the kernel to access bad memory. or someone could kill the
process (pexit would just free it).
now the string is protected by the usual p->debug qlock. we
also keep the string arround until it is overwritten again
or the process exists. this has the nice side effect that
one can inspect it after the process crashed.
another problem was that our validaddr() would error() instead
of pexiting the current process. the code was changed to only
access up->s.args after it was validated and copied instead of
accessing the user stack directly. this also prevents a sneaky
multithreaded process from chaning the arguments under us.
in case our validaddr() errors, we cannot assume valid user
stack after the waserror() if block. use up->s.arg[0] for the
noted() call to avoid bad access.
