Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:34:07 +0100 | Subject | [PATCH 3/3] perf: uapi: Document perf_event_attr::sig_data truncation on 32 bit architectures | From | Marco Elver <> |
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Due to the alignment requirements of siginfo_t, as described in 3ddb3fd8cdb0 ("signal, perf: Fix siginfo_t by avoiding u64 on 32-bit architectures"), siginfo_t::si_perf_data is limited to an unsigned long.
However, perf_event_attr::sig_data is an u64, to avoid having to deal with compat conversions. Due to being an u64, it may not immediately be clear to users that sig_data is truncated on 32 bit architectures.
Add a comment to explicitly point this out, and hopefully help some users save time by not having to deduce themselves what's happening.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 1b65042ab1db..82858b697c05 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -465,6 +465,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr { /* * User provided data if sigtrap=1, passed back to user via * siginfo_t::si_perf_data, e.g. to permit user to identify the event. + * Note, siginfo_t::si_perf_data is long-sized, and sig_data will be + * truncated accordingly on 32 bit architectures. */ __u64 sig_data; }; -- 2.35.0.rc2.247.g8bbb082509-goog
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