linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] x86 vDSO: don't use disabled vDSO for signal trampoline

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Date:	Wed,  9 Apr 2008 01:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Amnon Shiloh <u3557@...o.sublimeip.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86 vDSO: don't use disabled vDSO for signal trampoline

If the vDSO was not mapped, don't use it as the "restorer" for a signal
handler.  Whether we have a pointer in mm->context.vdso depends on what
happened at exec time, so we shouldn't check any global flags now.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
index 5e7771a..05e155d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ int ia32_setup_frame(int sig, struct k_sigaction *ka,
 		restorer = ka->sa.sa_restorer;
 	} else {
 		/* Return stub is in 32bit vsyscall page */
-		if (current->binfmt->hasvdso)
+		if (current->mm->context.vdso)
 			restorer = VDSO32_SYMBOL(current->mm->context.vdso,
 						 sigreturn);
 		else
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c
index 0157a6f..011c62f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ static int setup_frame(int sig, struct k_sigaction *ka,
 			goto give_sigsegv;
 	}
 
-	if (current->binfmt->hasvdso)
+	if (current->mm->context.vdso)
 		restorer = VDSO32_SYMBOL(current->mm->context.vdso, sigreturn);
 	else
 		restorer = &frame->retcode;
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