linux-kernel - Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/3] signal/ia64: siginfo fixes and cleanups

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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:38:20 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/3] signal/ia64: siginfo fixes and cleanups

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 04:20:32PM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> It turns out that ia64 is one of the noticable offenders.  Ever since
> ia64 was merged in 2.3.43 it has been generating incorrect siginfo for
> SIGSEGV assocaited with the inability to setup a signal stack frame
> or cleanup a signal stack frame.

I'll blame that on the "previous administration". I didn't start work
on Linux until 2.3.99, and didn't take over as maintainer until 2.6.11 :-)

> I don't think I have made made any mistakes in this coversion but if
> people can look the code over and see if they can spot anything I would
> appreciate it.

I don't see any mistakes either. It builds and boots. Obviously I don't
have a test case for this issue (or it would have been found long ago).

> My intention is to merge this through my siginfo tree.  If you feel it
> should go through your arch tree let me know.   All of the prerequisites
> should have been merged several releases ago.

Sure. Merge away.

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

-Tony