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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:08:32 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mips{,64,n32}: Call exit on return from fn in
 __clone

* Segev Finer <segev208@...il.com> [2018-08-15 20:46:17 +0300]:
> This is the expected behavior of this function.  Without this the child
> task will crash on return from fn, since it will return to nowhere.
> 
> I only tested MIPS O32.
> 

sounds right to me, it affects users who call raw clone,
the child function used in pthread_create in musl does
not return so conforming posix code is not affected.

> Segev Finer (3):
>   mips: Call exit on return from fn in __clone
>   mips64: Call exit on return from fn in __clone
>   mipsn32: Call exit on return from fn in __clone
> 
>  src/thread/mips/clone.s    | 5 ++++-
>  src/thread/mips64/clone.s  | 5 ++++-
>  src/thread/mipsn32/clone.s | 5 ++++-
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.18.0

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