From b5daf2b9d1c9a2b4f03ca93f75913ba2da3b3eaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:25:01 -0500 Subject: signal/parisc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE Setting si_code to 0 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. Further use of si_code == 0 guaranteed that copy_siginfo_to_user saw a value of __SI_KILL and now sees a value of SIL_KILL with the result that uid and pid fields are copied and which might copying the si_addr field by accident but certainly not by design. Making this a very flakey implementation. Utilizing FPE_FIXME siginfo_layout will now return SIL_FAULT and the appropriate fields will reliably be copied. This bug is 13 years old and parsic machines are no longer being built so I don't know if it possible or worth fixing it. But it is at least worth documenting this so other architectures don't make the same mistake. Possible ABI fixes includee: - Send the signal without siginfo - Don't generate a signal - Possibly assign and use an appropriate si_code - Don't handle cases which can't happen Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Ref: 313c01d3e3fd ("[PATCH] PA-RISC update for 2.6.0") Histroy Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c') diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c index 8453724b8009..c919e6c0a687 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ void notrace handle_interruption(int code, struct pt_regs *regs) si.si_signo = SIGFPE; /* Set to zero, and let the userspace app figure it out from the insn pointed to by si_addr */ - si.si_code = 0; + si.si_code = FPE_FIXME; si.si_addr = (void __user *) regs->iaoq[0]; force_sig_info(SIGFPE, &si, current); return; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b