Re: [PATCH 4/7] signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE

"Maciej W. Rozycki" [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index b68b4d0726d3..6c9cca9c5341 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c

@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ void force_fcr31_sig(unsigned long fcr31, void __user *fault_addr,
 	else if (fcr31 & FPU_CSR_INE_X)
 		si.si_code = FPE_FLTRES;
 	else
-		si.si_code = __SI_FAULT;
+		si.si_code = FPE_FIXME;

 This is an "impossible" state to reach unless your hardware is on fire.  
One or more of the FCSR Cause bits will have been set (in `fcr31') or the 
FPE exception would not have happened.

 Of course there could be a simulator bug, or we could have breakage 
somewhere causing `process_fpemu_return' to be called with SIGFPE and 
inconsistent `fcr31'.  So we need to handle it somehow.

 So what would be the right value of `si_code' to use here for such an 
unexpected exception condition?  I think `BUG()' would be too big a 
hammer here.  Or wouldn't it?

The possible solutions I can think of are:

WARN_ON_ONCE with a comment.

Add a new si_code to uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h perhaps FPE_IMPOSSIBLE.
Like syscall numbers si_codes are cheap.

Call force_sig() instead of force_sig_info, using just a generic
si_code.

If this is truly impossible and the compiler doesn't complain just drop
the code.

Eric