linux-kernel - [patch V4 part 1 05/36] x86/entry: Flip _TIF_SIGPENDING and _TIF_NOTIFY

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Date:   Tue, 05 May 2020 15:16:07 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@...cle.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [patch V4 part 1 05/36] x86/entry: Flip _TIF_SIGPENDING and
 _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handling

Make sure task_work runs before any kind of userspace -- very much
including signals -- is invoked.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/entry/common.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
@@ -156,16 +156,16 @@ static void exit_to_usermode_loop(struct
 		if (cached_flags & _TIF_PATCH_PENDING)
 			klp_update_patch_state(current);
 
-		/* deal with pending signal delivery */
-		if (cached_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING)
-			do_signal(regs);
-
 		if (cached_flags & _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) {
 			clear_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
 			tracehook_notify_resume(regs);
 			rseq_handle_notify_resume(NULL, regs);
 		}
 
+		/* deal with pending signal delivery */
+		if (cached_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING)
+			do_signal(regs);
+
 		if (cached_flags & _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
 			fire_user_return_notifiers();