[PATCH 1/4] alpha: belated ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK race fix

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Sep 18 2010 - 04:38:59 EST


same thing as had been done on other targets back in 2003 -
move setting ->restart_block.fn into {rt_,}sigreturn().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
index 0932dbb..e5b1b3c 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ restore_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct pt_regs *regs,
unsigned long usp;
long i, err = __get_user(regs->pc, &sc->sc_pc);

+ current_thread_info()->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
+
sw->r26 = (unsigned long) ret_from_sys_call;

err |= __get_user(regs->r0, sc->sc_regs+0);
@@ -591,7 +593,6 @@ syscall_restart(unsigned long r0, unsigned long r19,
regs->pc -= 4;
break;
case ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK:
- current_thread_info()->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
regs->r0 = EINTR;
break;
}
--
1.5.6.5
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