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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Final si_trapno bits
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 18:09, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Marco Elver <elver@google.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:09PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> As a part of a fix for the ABI of the newly added SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF a
> >> si_trapno was reduced to an ordinary extention of the _sigfault case
> >> of struct siginfo.
> >>
> >> When Linus saw the complete set of changes come in as a fix he requested
> >> that the set of changes be trimmed down to just what was necessary to
> >> fix the SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF ABI.
> >>
> >> I had intended to get the rest of the changes into the merge window for
> >> v5.14 but I dropped the ball.
> >>
> >> I have made the changes to stop using __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO be per
> >> architecture so they are easier to review. In doing so I found one
> >> place on alpha where I used send_sig_fault instead of
> >> send_sig_fault_trapno(... si_trapno = 0). That would not have changed
> >> the userspace behavior but it did make the kernel code less clear.
> >>
> >> My rule in these patches is everywhere that siginfo layout calls
> >> for SIL_FAULT_TRAPNO the code uses either force_sig_fault_trapno
> >> or send_sig_fault_trapno.
> >>
> >> And of course I have rebased and compile tested Marco's compile time
> >> assert patches.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
> >> Eric W. Biederman (3):
> >> signal/sparc: si_trapno is only used with SIGILL ILL_ILLTRP
> >> signal/alpha: si_trapno is only used with SIGFPE and SIGTRAP TRAP_UNK
> >> signal: Remove the generic __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO support
> >>
> >> Marco Elver (3):
> >> sparc64: Add compile-time asserts for siginfo_t offsets
> >> arm: Add compile-time asserts for siginfo_t offsets
> >> arm64: Add compile-time asserts for siginfo_t offsets
> >
> > Nice, thanks for the respin. If I diffed it right, I see this is almost
> > (modulo what you mentioned above) equivalent to:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/m1tuni8ano.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org/
> > + what's already in mainline. It's only missing:
> >
> > signal: Verify the alignment and size of siginfo_t
> > signal: Rename SIL_PERF_EVENT SIL_FAULT_PERF_EVENT for consistency
> >
> > Would this be appropriate for this series, or rather separately, or
> > dropped completely?
>
> Appropriate I just overlooked them.

Full series with the 2 patches just sent looks good to me.

Thanks,
-- Marco

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