x86/signal/64: Re-add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context

2016-02-17T07:32:11Z

This is a second attempt to make the improvements from c6f2062935c8 ("x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for signals delivered to 64-bit programs"), which was reverted by 51adbfbba5c6 ("x86/signal/64: Add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context"). This adds two new uc_flags flags. UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS will be set for all 64-bit signals (including x32). It indicates that the saved SS field is valid and that the kernel supports the new behavior. The goal is to fix a problems with signal handling in 64-bit tasks: SS wasn't saved in the 64-bit signal context, making it awkward to determine what SS was at the time of signal delivery and making it impossible to return to a non-flat SS (as calling sigreturn clobbers SS). This also made it extremely difficult for 64-bit tasks to return to fully-defined 16-bit contexts, because only the kernel can easily do espfix64, but sigreturn was unable to set a non-flag SS:ESP. (DOSEMU has a monstrous hack to partially work around this limitation.) If we could go back in time, the correct fix would be to make 64-bit signals work just like 32-bit signals with respect to SS: save it in signal context, reset it when delivering a signal, and restore it in sigreturn. Unfortunately, doing that (as I tried originally) breaks DOSEMU: DOSEMU wouldn't reset the signal context's SS when clearing the LDT and changing the saved CS to 64-bit mode, since it predates the SS context field existing in the first place. This patch is a bit more complicated, and it tries to balance a bunch of goals. It makes most cases of changing ucontext->ss during signal handling work as expected. I do this by special-casing the interesting case. On sigreturn, ucontext->ss will be honored by default, unless the ucontext was created from scratch by an old program and had a 64-bit CS (unfortunately, CRIU can do this) or was the result of changing a 32-bit signal context to 64-bit without resetting SS (as DOSEMU does). For the benefit of new 64-bit software that uses segmentation (new versions of DOSEMU might), the new behavior can be detected with a new ucontext flag UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS. To avoid compilation issues, __pad0 is left as an alias for ss in ucontext. The nitty-gritty details are documented in the header file. This patch also re-enables the sigreturn_64 and ldt_gdt_64 selftests, as the kernel change allows both of them to pass. Tested-by: Stas Sergeev Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/749149cbfc3e75cd7fcdad69a854b399d792cc6f.1455664054.git.luto@kernel.org [ Small readability edit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm

2012-12-14T22:37:13Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

kernel.git/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h, branch linux-4.7.y

x86/signal/64: Re-add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm