linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:22:52 -1000
From:   Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for
 SIGTRAP

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@....de>  pointed out
>      with his alternate patch one of the cases is SIGFPE not SIGTRAP.
> 
> Cc: Helge Deller<deller@....de>
> Cc: Richard Henderson<rth@...ddle.net>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky<ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
> Cc: Matt Turner<mattst88@...il.com>
> Cc:linux-alpha@...r.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@...ssion.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@...ddle.net>


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