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Commit 2a742138 authored by Stas Sergeev's avatar Stas Sergeev Committed by Ingo Molnar
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signals/sigaltstack: Implement SS_AUTODISARM flag



This patch implements the SS_AUTODISARM flag that can be OR-ed with
SS_ONSTACK when forming ss_flags.

When this flag is set, sigaltstack will be disabled when entering
the signal handler; more precisely, after saving sas to uc_stack.
When leaving the signal handler, the sigaltstack is restored by
uc_stack.

When this flag is used, it is safe to switch from sighandler with
swapcontext(). Without this flag, the subsequent signal will corrupt
the state of the switched-away sighandler.

To detect the support of this functionality, one can do:

  err = sigaltstack(SS_DISABLE | SS_AUTODISARM);
  if (err && errno == EINVAL)
	unsupported();

Signed-off-by: default avatarStas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-4-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 407bc16a
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