History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# d9f6e12f 18-Mar-2021 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86: Fix various typos in comments

Fix ~144 single-word typos in arch/x86/ code comments.

Doing this in a single commit should reduce the churn.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


# 6f52b16c 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 6c25da5a 16-Feb-2016 Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

x86/signal/64: Re-add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context

This is a second attempt to make the improvements from c6f2062935c8
("x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for signals delivered to 64-bit
programs"), which was reverted by 51adbfbba5c6 ("x86/signal/64: Add
support for SS in the 64-bit signal context").

This adds two new uc_flags flags. UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS will be set for
all 64-bit signals (including x32). It indicates that the saved SS
field is valid and that the kernel supports the new behavior.

The goal is to fix a problems with signal handling in 64-bit tasks:
SS wasn't saved in the 64-bit signal context, making it awkward to
determine what SS was at the time of signal delivery and making it
impossible to return to a non-flat SS (as calling sigreturn clobbers
SS).

This also made it extremely difficult for 64-bit tasks to return to
fully-defined 16-bit contexts, because only the kernel can easily do
espfix64, but sigreturn was unable to set a non-flag SS:ESP.
(DOSEMU has a monstrous hack to partially work around this
limitation.)

If we could go back in time, the correct fix would be to make 64-bit
signals work just like 32-bit signals with respect to SS: save it
in signal context, reset it when delivering a signal, and restore
it in sigreturn.

Unfortunately, doing that (as I tried originally) breaks DOSEMU:
DOSEMU wouldn't reset the signal context's SS when clearing the LDT
and changing the saved CS to 64-bit mode, since it predates the SS
context field existing in the first place.

This patch is a bit more complicated, and it tries to balance a
bunch of goals. It makes most cases of changing ucontext->ss during
signal handling work as expected.

I do this by special-casing the interesting case. On sigreturn,
ucontext->ss will be honored by default, unless the ucontext was
created from scratch by an old program and had a 64-bit CS
(unfortunately, CRIU can do this) or was the result of changing a
32-bit signal context to 64-bit without resetting SS (as DOSEMU
does).

For the benefit of new 64-bit software that uses segmentation (new
versions of DOSEMU might), the new behavior can be detected with a
new ucontext flag UC_SIGCONTEXT_SS.

To avoid compilation issues, __pad0 is left as an alias for ss in
ucontext.

The nitty-gritty details are documented in the header file.

This patch also re-enables the sigreturn_64 and ldt_gdt_64 selftests,
as the kernel change allows both of them to pass.

Tested-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/749149cbfc3e75cd7fcdad69a854b399d792cc6f.1455664054.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Small readability edit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# e54fdcca 16-Feb-2016 Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

x86/signal/64: Add a comment about sigcontext->fs and gs

These fields have a strange history. This tries to document it.

This borrows from 9a036b93a344 ("x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs'
from sigcontext"), which was reverted by ed596cde9425 ("Revert x86
sigcontext cleanups").

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baa78f3c84106fa5acbc319377b1850602f5deec.1455664054.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 0e2815de 09-Sep-2015 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

x86/headers: Clean up too long lines

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: mikko.rapeli@iki.fi
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150909071244.GM3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 8fcb346b 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Convert sigcontext_ia32 uses to sigcontext_32

Use the new name in kernel code, and move the old name to the
user-space-only legacy section of the UAPI header.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-14-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# db1e0314 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Unify 'struct sigcontext_ia32' and 'struct sigcontext_32'

The two structures are identical - merge them and keep the
legacy name as a define.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-13-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 530e5c82 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Make sigcontext pointers bit independent

Before we can eliminate the duplication between 'struct
sigcontext_32' and 'struct sigcontext_ia32', make the 'fpstate'
pointer field in 'struct sigcontext_32' bit independent.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-12-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# f2c609bc 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Move the 'struct sigcontext' definitions into the UAPI header

Our goal is to eliminate the duplicate struct sigcontext_ia32
definition, so move the kernel's primary sigcontext type into
the UAPI header, defining these two variants:

struct sigcontext_32
struct sigcontext_64

... and map them to 'struct sigcontext'.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-11-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 86e9fc3a 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Convert uses of _fpstate_ia32 to _fpstate_32

Remove uses of _fpstate_ia32 from the kernel, and move the
legacy _fpstate_ia32 definition to the user-space only portion
of the header.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-9-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 7bb0dc22 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Unify 'struct _fpstate_ia32' and i386 struct _fpstate

'struct _fpstate_ia32' and 'struct _fpstate' on i386 are
identical in all fields, except 'padding1' being named
'padding'.

We unify the two structures and add a union that is both named
'padding1' and 'padding', in the (unlikely) case there's
user-space code that relies on the padding field name.

We rename the two main types to be:

struct _fpstate_32
struct _fpstate_64

for the 32-bit and 64-bit frame, and map them to the main and
compat structure names (_fpstate) depending on whether we are on
32-bit or on 64-bit kernels.

We also keep the old _fpstate_ia32 name as a legacy name.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-8-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 337a167d 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Unify register type definitions between 32-bit compat and i386

The following sigcontext related types were duplicated across
native 32-bit and compat 32-bit headers:

struct _fpreg;
struct _fpxreg;
struct _xmmreg;

X86_FXSR_MAGIC

Unify them.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-7-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 3f623a5b 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Use ABI types consistently in sigcontext*.h

Use the __u16/32/64 types we standardized on in ABI definitions
- and which most of this header was already using.

This will allow us to more obviously unify the compat header
into the main header.

No change in functionality.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-6-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 128f8257 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Separate out legacy user-space structure definitions

Better separate the user-space struct sigcontext definitions
from the kernel definitions, so that we can unify the kernel
definitions with sigcontext32.h.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-5-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# cbf5f4fb 05-Sep-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/headers: Clean up and better document uapi/asm/sigcontext.h

Clean up sigcontext.h:

- the explanations were full of typos and were hard to read in general
- use consistent and readable vertical spacing
- fix, harmonize and extend comments

No field name has been changed, user-space might be relying on
them.

Acked-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441438363-9999-4-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# ed596cde 13-Aug-2015 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert x86 sigcontext cleanups

This reverts commits 9a036b93a344 ("x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs'
from sigcontext") and c6f2062935c8 ("x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for
signals delivered to 64-bit programs").

They were cleanups, but they break dosemu by changing the signal return
behavior (and removing 'fs' and 'gs' from the sigcontext struct - while
not actually changing any behavior - causes build problems).

Reported-and-tested-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 400e4b20 24-Apr-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/fpu: Rename xsave.header::xstate_bv to 'xfeatures'

'xsave.header::xstate_bv' is a misnomer - what does 'bv' stand for?

It probably comes from the 'XGETBV' instruction name, but I could
not find in the Intel documentation where that abbreviation comes
from. It could mean 'bit vector' - or something else?

But how about - instead of guessing about a weird name - we named
the field in an obvious and descriptive way that tells us exactly
what it does?

So rename it to 'xfeatures', which is a bitmask of the
xfeatures that are fpstate_active in that context structure.

Eyesore like:

fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP;

is now much more readable:

fpu->state->xsave.header.xfeatures |= XSTATE_FP;

Which form is not just infinitely more readable, but is also
shorter as well.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 3a54450b 24-Apr-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

x86/fpu: Rename 'xsave_hdr' to 'header'

Code like:

fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP;

is an eyesore, because not only is the words 'xsave' and 'state'
are repeated twice times (!), but also because of the 'hdr' and 'bv'
abbreviations that are pretty meaningless at a first glance.

Start cleaning this up by renaming 'xsave_hdr' to 'header'.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 9a036b93 12-Mar-2015 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>

x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from sigcontext

As far as I can tell, these fields have been set to zero on save
and ignored on restore since Linux was imported into git.
Rename them '__pad1' and '__pad2' to avoid confusion. This may
also allow us to recycle them some day.

This also adds a comment clarifying the history of those fields.

I'm intentionally avoiding calling either of them '__pad0': the
field formerly known as '__pad0' is now 'ss'.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/844f8490e938780c03355be4c9b69eb4c494bf4e.1426193719.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# c6f20629 12-Mar-2015 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>

x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for signals delivered to 64-bit programs

The comment in the signal code says that apps can save/restore
other segments on their own. It's true that apps can *save* SS
on their own, but there's no way for apps to restore it: SYSCALL
effectively resets SS to __USER_DS, so any value that user code
tries to load into SS gets lost on entry to sigreturn.

This recycles two padding bytes in the segment selector area for SS.

While we're at it, we need a second change to make this useful.

If the signal we're delivering is caused by a bad SS value,
saving that value isn't enough. We need to remove that bad
value from the regs before we try to deliver the signal. Oddly,
the i386 code already got this right.

I suspect that 64-bit programs that try to run 16-bit code and
use signals will have a lot of trouble without this.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/405594361340a2ec32f8e2b115c142df0e180d8e.1426193719.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# af170c50 14-Dec-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>