Re: [PATCH] Support a protection scheme which reset the GS selector

[Alexandre Julliard]

Alessandro Pignotti <a.pignotti(a)sssup.it> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've found two different games:
>
> -) Of orcs and men
> -) The testament of sherlock holmes
>
> which are using a protection scheme which reset the GS segment selector,
> possibly to confuse virtual machines. Since on linux the GS selector is
> used internally by glibc the game would crash as soon as a native glibc
> method is called by wine. The proposed patch tries to workaround this
> problem by restoring the GS to a known working value in wine's SEGFAULS
> handler and try the instruction again.

This should be done similarly to the other checks in raise_segv_exception.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org