[PATCH] compat: Fix endian issue in union sigval

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Bamvor Jian Zhang <hidden>
Date
2015-02-13 08:02:13
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Reply to
Catalin Marinas, 2015-02-11
On 2015/2/11 23:40, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 07:22:08PM +0800, Bamvor Jian Zhang wrote:
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On 2015/2/10 20:27, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:10:11AM +0000, Zhang Jian(Bamvor) wrote:
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The native sigval_t is also a union but on 64-bit big endian, the
sival_int overlaps with the most significant 32-bit of the sival_ptr.
So reading sival_int would always be 0. When the compat siginfo is
copied to user, arm64 reads the native sival_ptr (si_ptr) and converts
it to the compat one, getting the correct 32-bit value. However, other
architectures access sival_int (si_int) instead which breaks with your
get_compat_sigevent() changes.
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I think the correct fix is in the arm64 code:
The following code could fix my issue.
Without any parts of your patch?
Yes. As you mentioned above, sival_int overlaps the most significant 32bit
of the sival_ptr, it seems that your patch is right if sival_ptr is less than
32bit.
I think that's correct fix since in the SIGEV_THREAD mq_notify case, we
would not deliver a signal as notification, so the sival_int value is
irrelevant (it would be 0 for big-endian compat tasks because of the
sigval_t union on 64-bit).

Your patch would work as well but you have to change all the other
architectures to use si_ptr when copying to a compat siginfo.
Yeah, it seems that my patch is useful only if the sival_ptr is bigger
than 32bit. It need the similar changes with following catalin's patch
in the following 64bit architecture:
x86:                 arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
tile, s390:          arch/xxx/kernel/compat_signal.c
parisc, sparc, mips: arch/xxx/kernel/signal32.c
powerpc:             arch/xxx/kernel/signal_32.c

cc these maintainers for input.

regards

bamvor
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index e299de396e9b..32601939a3c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -154,8 +154,7 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 	case __SI_TIMER:
 		 err |= __put_user(from->si_tid, &to->si_tid);
 		 err |= __put_user(from->si_overrun, &to->si_overrun);
-		 err |= __put_user((compat_uptr_t)(unsigned long)from->si_ptr,
-				   &to->si_ptr);
+		 err |= __put_user(from->si_int, &to->si_int);
 		break;
 	case __SI_POLL:
 		err |= __put_user(from->si_band, &to->si_band);
@@ -184,7 +183,7 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 	case __SI_MESGQ: /* But this is */
 		err |= __put_user(from->si_pid, &to->si_pid);
 		err |= __put_user(from->si_uid, &to->si_uid);
-		err |= __put_user((compat_uptr_t)(unsigned long)from->si_ptr, &to->si_ptr);
+		err |= __put_user(from->si_int, &to->si_int);
 		break;
 	case __SI_SYS:
 		err |= __put_user((compat_uptr_t)(unsigned long)
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