Re: sigaltstack fun

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Nov 26 2012 - 00:10:01 EST


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:27:24PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks.

Hmm... There's something odd going on with {rt_,}sigaction on sparc -
we *do* have sa_restorer in struct sigaction and struct old_sigaction,
but it's not used for anything whatsoever. There's also a separately
passed restorer pointer for rt_sigaction() and *that* is used instead,
but not reported via *oact.

What's the reason for that weirdness? I understand why we do that on
alpha (we have no sa_restorer in struct sigaction we'd inherited from
OSF/1), but sparc always had perfectly normal sigaction->sa_restorer
field all along - even for old sigaction(2)...
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