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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:18:10 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: Build breakage in 3.8.4 [was: Linux 3.8.4]
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:56:20AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On 03/20/2013 11:25 PM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> >
> >> Am 20.03.2013 21:15, schrieb Greg KH:
> >>> I'm announcing the release of the 3.8.4 kernel.
> > ...
> >>>        signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
> >> consider that this kernel is not compileable on mips targets due the
> >> patch in kernel/signal.c
> >>
> >> SA_RESTORER is defined in mips, but sa_restorer does not exist on that
> >> platform
> >
> > The same for ia64...
> >
> > kernel/signal.c: In function 'flush_signal_handlers':
> > kernel/signal.c:441: error: 'struct sigaction' has no member named
> > 'sa_restorer'
> >
> > Do we need this in 3.0, 3.4, 3.8 too?
> > commit 522cff142d7d2f9230839c9e1f21a4d8bcc22a4a
> > Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date:   Wed Mar 13 14:59:34 2013 -0700
> >
> >     kernel/signal.c: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER
> >
> >     __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER is the preferred conditional for use in 3.9 and
> >     later kernels, per Kees.
> 
> Hrm, if so, we'll need to also backport the changes that aded
> __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER...

Ok, well, can someone provide me the needed patches?  Otherwise I will
have to revert the offending change from the stable releases.

thanks,

greg k-h