Re: avr32: handle_signal() bug?

From: Håvard Skinnemoen
Date: Sun Aug 07 2011 - 13:20:58 EST


Hi Matt,

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That doesn't look correct to me. Now, if we were unsuccessful in setting
> up a signal frame, say, ret == -EFAULT, do we really want to block the
> signal or any of the signals in the handler mask?

I'm assuming this is a rhetorical question :-)

> Is there some intricacy of the avr32 architecture that I'm missing here?
> It looks to me like this code was copied from the arm implementation
> from years ago before commit a6c61e9dfdd0 ("[ARM] 3168/1: Update ARM
> signal delivery and masking").

I don't think there are any avr32-specific intricacies to consider
here, and ARM was indeed one of the architectures I looked at when
writing the signal handling code, so I probably picked up that bug
from there.

> How about this?

Looks good to me. I'm not sure how to test it though...I can try to
build a kernel, run it on my board and see if it explodes, but I
suspect this bug is a lot more subtle than that.

Havard
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