From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>, Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:22:52 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0e3c779-b00b-dc86-60f5-12f54e8d5f3a@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718140651.15973-1-ebiederm@xmission.com>
On 07/18/2017 04:06 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Setting si_code to __SI_FAULT results in a userspace seeing
> an si_code of 0. This is the same si_code as SI_USER. Posix
> and common sense requires that SI_USER not be a signal specific
> si_code. As such this use of 0 for the si_code is a pretty
> horribly broken ABI.
>
> Given that alpha is on it's last legs I don't know that it is worth
> fixing this, but it is worth documenting what is going on so that
> no one decides to copy this bad decision.
>
> This was introduced during the 2.5 development cycle so this
> mess has had a long time for people to be able to depend upon it.
>
> v2: Added FPE_FIXME for alpha as Helge Deller<deller@gmx.de> pointed out
> with his alternate patch one of the cases is SIGFPE not SIGTRAP.
>
> Cc: Helge Deller<deller@gmx.de>
> Cc: Richard Henderson<rth@twiddle.net>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
> Cc: Matt Turner<mattst88@gmail.com>
> Cc:linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
> History Tree:https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> Ref: 0a635c7a84cf ("Fill in siginfo_t.")
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"<ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
> arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
> arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 6 +++---
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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2017-06-30 12:36 ` [PATCH 0/8] signal: Fix sending signals with siginfo Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 18:22 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/7] signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 3/7] signal/sparc: " Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/7] signal/mips: " Eric W. Biederman
2017-08-07 16:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-08-07 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-07 19:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2017-08-08 15:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-08-08 23:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 5/7] signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 6/7] fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-20 16:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-07-21 2:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 14:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-18 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-18 17:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-22 20:25 ` Simplfying copy_siginfo_to_user Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-24 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-24 19:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-07-25 1:37 ` Al Viro
2017-07-31 16:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
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