From: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
To: w@1wt.eu, linux@weissschuh.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
Subject: [PATCH] tools/nolibc: Fix WIFSIGNALED(0)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:53:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018105341.243797-1-daniel@thingy.jp> (raw)
WIFSIGNALED(0) currently returns true, so a process that exited
normally with status 0 looks like it was killed by a signal.
The macro uses a trick of checking whether status - 1 is below
0xff but is subtly broken because of using signed arithmetic.
For 0 it computes -1 < 0xff which is true.
Do what musl does: mask the status to 16 bits and use unsigned
arithmetic so 0 wraps to 0xffff and the comparison fails.
The mask also prevents bits we don't care about from sneaking in.
Fixes: 8c934d4822c7 ("tools/nolibc: add helpers for wait() signal exits")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
---
I'm putting off sending anything else (dirfd and some other bits)
until after the merge window has finished.. but this one seems like
it should be fixed sooner.
I found this while debugging an annoying issue in my homebrew nolibc
based shell.
tools/include/nolibc/types.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/types.h b/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
index 8f3cb18df7f1..d241629b9e67 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct timeval {
#define WEXITSTATUS(status) (((status) & 0xff00) >> 8)
#define WIFEXITED(status) (((status) & 0x7f) == 0)
#define WTERMSIG(status) ((status) & 0x7f)
-#define WIFSIGNALED(status) ((status) - 1 < 0xff)
+#define WIFSIGNALED(status) (((status) & 0xffff) - 1U < 0xffU)
/* standard exit() codes */
#define EXIT_SUCCESS 0
--
2.53.0
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