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" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Ref: 313c01d3 ("[PATCH] PA-RISC update for 2.6.0") Histroy Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.gitSigned-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment