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Eric W. Biederman cf4674c46c 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: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-01-12 14:21:04 -06:00
arch signal/powerpc: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE and SIGTRAP 2018-01-12 14:21:04 -06:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-20 11:10:17 -07:00
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crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-22 12:22:48 -08:00
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kernel signal: Simplify and fix kdb_send_sig 2018-01-03 18:01:08 -06:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.