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Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:03:14 +0300
From:   "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE via
 kill() returns wrong values in si_pid and si_uid

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:58:11AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 04:34:35AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > A similar commit v4.16-rc1~159^2~37
> > ("signal/arm: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE") must have
> > introduced a similar ABI regression to compat arm.
> 
> So, could you explain how can this change cause a regression?
> 
> +#define FPE_FIXME      0
> -               vfp_raise_sigfpe(0, regs);
> +               vfp_raise_sigfpe(FPE_FIXME, regs);

No, this hunk hasn't caused the regression, but another one did:

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d051388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_SIGINFO_H
+#define __ASM_SIGINFO_H
+
+#include <asm-generic/siginfo.h>
+
+/*
+ * SIGFPE si_codes
+ */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#define FPE_FIXME      0       /* Broken dup of SI_USER */
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
+#endif

This is due to FPE_FIXME handling in kernel/signal.c


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