linux-kernel - Re: sigaltstack fun

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:15:44 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, monstr@...str.eu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sigaltstack fun

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:10:02AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:27:24PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > 
> > Applied, thanks.
> 
> Hmm...  There's something odd going on with {rt_,}sigaction on sparc -
> we *do* have sa_restorer in struct sigaction and struct old_sigaction,
> but it's not used for anything whatsoever.  There's also a separately
> passed restorer pointer for rt_sigaction() and *that* is used instead,
> but not reported via *oact.
> 
> What's the reason for that weirdness?  I understand why we do that on
> alpha (we have no sa_restorer in struct sigaction we'd inherited from
> OSF/1), but sparc always had perfectly normal sigaction->sa_restorer
> field all along - even for old sigaction(2)...

PS: speaking of weirdness, what's the reason for sparc and ppc (and nothing
else) expecting the first argument of sigaction(2) to be minus signal
number?  ABI archaeology is fun...
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