Re: [PATCH v06 12/36] x86 uapi asm/signal.h: use __kernel_size_t instead of size_t

From: Dmitry V. Levin
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 18:50:33 EST


On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 06:44:03PM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Fixes userspace compilation error:
>
> error: unknown type name âsize_tâ
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
> index 8264f47cf53e..74346db30758 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ struct sigaction {
> typedef struct sigaltstack {
> void __user *ss_sp;
> int ss_flags;
> - size_t ss_size;
> + __kernel_size_t ss_size;
> } stack_t;
>
> #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

This is definitely wrong because sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(__kernel_size_t) on x32.
I submitted a different fix some time ago, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303005930.GA10283@xxxxxxxxxxxx
and
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303005950.GB10283@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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