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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2021-04-30 17:06:01 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2021-05-18 16:17:03 -0500 |
| commit | add0b32ef9146a8559a60aed54c37692a5f9d34f (patch) | |
| tree | 2fae531f39ba89ce5e1fb6ffc0212f83df8c0c6a /include/linux | |
| parent | 42dec9a936e7696bea1f27d3c5a0068cd9aa95fd (diff) | |
siginfo: Move si_trapno inside the union inside _si_fault
It turns out that linux uses si_trapno very sparingly, and as such it
can be considered extra information for a very narrow selection of
signals, rather than information that is present with every fault
reported in siginfo.
As such move si_trapno inside the union inside of _si_fault. This
results in no change in placement, and makes it eaiser
to extend _si_fault in the future as this reduces the number of
special cases. In particular with si_trapno included in the union it
is no longer a concern that the union must be pointer aligned on most
architectures because the union follows immediately after si_addr
which is a pointer.
This change results in a difference in siginfo field placement on
sparc and alpha for the fields si_addr_lsb, si_lower, si_upper,
si_pkey, and si_perf. These architectures do not implement the
signals that would use si_addr_lsb, si_lower, si_upper, si_pkey, and
si_perf. Further these architecture have not yet implemented the
userspace that would use si_perf.
The point of this change is in fact to correct these placement issues
before sparc or alpha grow userspace that cares. This change was
discussed[1] and the agreement is that this change is currently safe.
[1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAK8P3a0+uKYwL1NhY6Hvtieghba2hKYGD6hcKx5n8=4Gtt+pHA@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/m1tunns7yf.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505141101.11519-5-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210517195748.8880-1-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compat.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h index f0d2dd35d408..6af7bef15e94 100644 --- a/include/linux/compat.h +++ b/include/linux/compat.h @@ -214,12 +214,11 @@ typedef struct compat_siginfo { /* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGTRAP, SIGEMT */ struct { compat_uptr_t _addr; /* faulting insn/memory ref. */ -#ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO - int _trapno; /* TRAP # which caused the signal */ -#endif #define __COMPAT_ADDR_BND_PKEY_PAD (__alignof__(compat_uptr_t) < sizeof(short) ? \ sizeof(short) : __alignof__(compat_uptr_t)) union { + /* used on alpha and sparc */ + int _trapno; /* TRAP # which caused the signal */ /* * used when si_code=BUS_MCEERR_AR or * used when si_code=BUS_MCEERR_AO |