Re: sigaltstack fun (was Re: new execve/kernel_thread design)

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:45:43AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, do you have any objections to the above?  FWIW, I've a tentative
> > patchset in that direction (most of it from the last cycle); right now
> > it + stuff currently in signal.git#for-next is at -3.4KLoC and I hadn't
> > dealt with the biarch side of things yet...
> 
> I have absolutely no objections. sigaltstack has always been kind of
> messy, and made worse by the fact that it gets effectively no testing
> (because it's generally not used by normal code and even code that
> uses it tends to use it only for very uncommon events). So forcing all
> the sigaltstack code into generic code and at least avoiding the
> "different architectures can get things subtly - or not so subtly -
> wrong in different ways" sounds like a good thing.

OK...  Intermediate state (do_sigaltstack() guts still need to be cleaned up
and distributed between the 4 callers) is in signal.git#master right now;
_not_ for merge in that form.  Crap found in process:
	* microblaze, sparc64 and tile (compat side) have the same bug (see
above).  Fixed in that queue.
	* score, sh64 and openrisc all tried call do do_sigaltstack() passing
it an address of on-stack copy; no, set_fs() was not used.  Fixed in that queue.
	* alpha and c6x do not bother to restore saved altstack settings on
sigreturn.
	* c6x, cris and hexagon don't bother *saving* altstack settings on
signal arrival.  And yes, it does mean that cris and hexagon call
do_sigaltstack() on an unitialized chunk of userland stack.  Needs to be
fixed (and in a way that could go into -stable, unfortunately ;-/)

I hadn't done anything serious with altstack users yet; I'm afraid that
this code (i.e. sigframe allocation logics) will also bring a lot of
fun weirdness... ;-/
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