From 407bc16ad1769f5cb8ad9555611cb198187ef4cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stas Sergeev Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:20:03 +0300 Subject: signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags This patch adds SS_FLAG_BITS - the mask that splits sigaltstack mode values and bit-flags. Since there is no bit-flags yet, the mask is defined to 0. The flags are added by subsequent patches. With every new flag, the mask should have the appropriate bit cleared. This makes sure if some flag is tried on a kernel that doesn't support it, the -EINVAL error will be returned, because such a flag will be treated as an invalid mode rather than the bit-flag. That way the existence of the particular features can be probed at run-time. This change was suggested by Andy Lutomirski: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/158 Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev Cc: Al Viro Cc: Amanieu d'Antras Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-3-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/signal.c | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index aa9bf00749c1..b1c6eb4df2a8 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -3104,7 +3104,8 @@ do_sigaltstack (const stack_t __user *uss, stack_t __user *uoss, unsigned long s if (uss) { void __user *ss_sp; size_t ss_size; - int ss_flags; + unsigned ss_flags; + int ss_mode; error = -EFAULT; if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uss, sizeof(*uss))) @@ -3119,18 +3120,13 @@ do_sigaltstack (const stack_t __user *uss, stack_t __user *uoss, unsigned long s if (on_sig_stack(sp)) goto out; + ss_mode = ss_flags & ~SS_FLAG_BITS; error = -EINVAL; - /* - * Note - this code used to test ss_flags incorrectly: - * old code may have been written using ss_flags==0 - * to mean ss_flags==SS_ONSTACK (as this was the only - * way that worked) - this fix preserves that older - * mechanism. - */ - if (ss_flags != SS_DISABLE && ss_flags != SS_ONSTACK && ss_flags != 0) + if (ss_mode != SS_DISABLE && ss_mode != SS_ONSTACK && + ss_mode != 0) goto out; - if (ss_flags == SS_DISABLE) { + if (ss_mode == SS_DISABLE) { ss_size = 0; ss_sp = NULL; } else { -- cgit