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Commit cf4674c4 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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signal/powerpc: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE and SIGTRAP

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 and TRAP_FIXME, siginfo_layout() will now return
SIL_FAULT and the appropriate fields will be reliably copied.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc:  linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Ref: 9bad068c24d7 ("[PATCH] ppc32: support for e500 and 85xx")
Ref: 0ed70f6105ef ("PPC32: Provide proper siginfo information on various exceptions.")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git


Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent b80328be
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