linux-kernel - Re: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE via kill() returns wrong values in si_pid and si

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwjZqd8J0=veki1g+quQg8amEG4NnMe-h7HFksn=F=x_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:22:15 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <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 10:20 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> This file was created to contain FPE_FIXME, by the "signal/arm: Document
> conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE" commit so if we're removing it, it
> would be better to remove the whole file.

Fair enough. I'm not going to commit that anyway since I can't test
it, but yes, if it tests ok that sounds like the right thing to do.

                   Linus