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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 12:49:53 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: enh <enh@...gle.com>
Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SA_RESTORER for rv64?

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:51:13AM -0800, enh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 3:54 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 10:44:56AM -0800, enh wrote:
> > > oops, never actually sent the patch. attached...
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 9:31 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 9:19 AM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 07:44:23AM -0800, enh wrote:
> > > > > > arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h has contained a definition for SA_RESTORER since
> > > > > > the initial commit, but i think that's just copy & paste from whichever
> > > > > > architecture the rv64 headers were based on? the linux kernel itself
> > > > > > doesn't have SA_RESTORER for rv64, unless i'm missing something?
> > > > >
> > > > > I suspect this is just a mistake. Have you seen any ill effects from
> > > > > it? If riscv folks can confirm it's wrong, I'll remove it.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah I think it should be removed. Perhaps mips is in same boat.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Rich
> >
> > > From 6413de6d9f785c98e5bc0cf40be947f1169d2fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Elliott Hughes <enh@...gle.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:42:55 -0800
> > > Subject: [PATCH] risc-v does not have SA_RESTORER.
> > >
> > > The kernel's include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h explicitly calls
> > > this out as obsolete. New architectures like risc-v do not define it.
> > > ---
> > >  arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h | 1 -
> > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h b/arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h
> > > index 287367db..fd6157a3 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv64/bits/signal.h
> > > @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ typedef struct __ucontext
> > >  #define SA_RESTART   0x10000000
> > >  #define SA_NODEFER   0x40000000
> > >  #define SA_RESETHAND 0x80000000
> > > -#define SA_RESTORER  0x04000000
> > >
> > >  #endif
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.39.1.519.gcb327c4b5f-goog
> > >
> >
> > I don't think this patch works as-is, since musl unconditionally uses
> > SA_RESTORER. We probably need to make that conditional on its
> > presence, and it looks like there's also a wrong-struct-layout issue
> > on archs where it's absent...
> 
> yeah, bionic just uses the kernel uapi headers directly, and they look
> like this:
> 
> struct sigaction {
>   __sighandler_t sa_handler;
>   unsigned long sa_flags;
> #ifdef SA_RESTORER
>   __sigrestore_t sa_restorer;
> #endif
>   sigset_t sa_mask;
> };

OK. It looks like we need to remove the wrong SA_RESTORER for archs
that aren't supposed to have it *and* add such an #ifdef. Right now,
we're passing bogus sa_mask on these archs... :(

Rich

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