[PATCH v17 2/3] signal: define the SA_UNSUPPORTED bit in sa_flags
From: Peter Collingbourne <hidden>
Date: 2020-11-17 03:18:30
Also in:
linux-arm-kernel
Subsystem:
generic include/asm header files, the rest · Maintainers:
Arnd Bergmann, Linus Torvalds
Define a sa_flags bit, SA_UNSUPPORTED, which will never be supported in the uapi. The purpose of this flag bit is to allow userspace to distinguish an old kernel that does not clear unknown sa_flags bits from a kernel that supports every flag bit. In other words, if userspace does something like: act.sa_flags |= SA_UNSUPPORTED; sigaction(SIGSEGV, &act, 0); sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0, &oldact); and finds that SA_UNSUPPORTED remains set in oldact.sa_flags, it means that the kernel cannot be trusted to have cleared unknown flag bits from sa_flags, so no assumptions about flag bit support can be made. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <redacted> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic2501ad150a3a79c1cf27fb8c99be342e9dffbcb --- v11: - clarify the commit message include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h | 7 +++++++ kernel/signal.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h
index 44f070982752..c790f67304ba 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ * SA_RESTART flag to get restarting signals (which were the default long ago) * SA_NODEFER prevents the current signal from being masked in the handler. * SA_RESETHAND clears the handler when the signal is delivered. + * SA_UNSUPPORTED is a flag bit that will never be supported. Kernels from + * before the introduction of SA_UNSUPPORTED did not clear unknown bits from + * sa_flags when read using the oldact argument to sigaction and rt_sigaction, + * so this bit allows flag bit support to be detected from userspace while + * allowing an old kernel to be distinguished from a kernel that supports every + * flag bit. * * SA_ONESHOT and SA_NOMASK are the historical Linux names for the Single * Unix names RESETHAND and NODEFER respectively.
@@ -34,6 +40,7 @@ /* 0x00000080 used on parisc */ /* 0x00000100 used on sparc */ /* 0x00000200 used on sparc */ +#define SA_UNSUPPORTED 0x00000400 /* 0x00010000 used on mips */ /* 0x01000000 used on x86 */ /* 0x02000000 used on x86 */
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8f5bd12ee41b..8f34819e80de 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c@@ -3985,6 +3985,12 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact) if (oact) *oact = *k; + /* + * Make sure that we never accidentally claim to support SA_UNSUPPORTED, + * e.g. by having an architecture use the bit in their uapi. + */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(UAPI_SA_FLAGS & SA_UNSUPPORTED); + /* * Clear unknown flag bits in order to allow userspace to detect missing * support for flag bits and to allow the kernel to use non-uapi bits
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