* [PATCH 0/2] microblaze: fix signal-frame handling for NPTL
@ 2026-06-04 15:37 Ramin Moussavi
2026-06-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] microblaze: wire up sigaltstack Ramin Moussavi
2026-06-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] microblaze: reserve the ABI argument-home area in the signal frame Ramin Moussavi
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From: Ramin Moussavi @ 2026-06-04 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Simek; +Cc: linux-kernel, Ramin Moussavi
Two independent fixes to the microblaze signal-delivery path, both found
while bringing the uClibc-ng NPTL test suite up on microblazeel under
qemu-system (petalogix-s3adsp1800).
Patch 1 wires up sigaltstack(), which is currently routed to
sys_ni_syscall even though the signal code fully supports an alternate
stack - microblaze is the only architecture leaving it unimplemented.
Patch 2 reserves the ABI argument-home area at the top of the signal
frame. The MicroBlaze calling convention lets a handler store its
incoming register arguments into [r1+4]..[r1+28]; since r1 points at
struct rt_sigframe on entry, those stores land in siginfo/ucontext and
corrupt the signal state. An eight-word leading gap moves them into
scratch space.
Both were tested with the uClibc-ng NPTL tests; the affected tests
(tst-cancel20/21, tst-cancelx20/21, tst-signal6, tst-timer4/5,
tst-mqueue5) now pass. checkpatch --strict is clean and both apply to
current linux-next.
Ramin Moussavi (2):
microblaze: wire up sigaltstack
microblaze: reserve the ABI argument-home area in the signal frame
arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c | 7 +++++++
arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 2 +-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--
2.53.0
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* [PATCH 1/2] microblaze: wire up sigaltstack
2026-06-04 15:37 [PATCH 0/2] microblaze: fix signal-frame handling for NPTL Ramin Moussavi
@ 2026-06-04 15:37 ` Ramin Moussavi
2026-06-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] microblaze: reserve the ABI argument-home area in the signal frame Ramin Moussavi
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From: Ramin Moussavi @ 2026-06-04 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Simek; +Cc: linux-kernel, Ramin Moussavi, Ramin Moussavi
sigaltstack is wired to sys_ni_syscall - microblaze is the only
architecture without it - although the microblaze signal delivery code
fully supports the alternate signal stack: get_sigframe() picks the
stack via sigsp(), setup_rt_frame() saves it with __save_altstack() and
sys_rt_sigreturn() calls restore_altstack().
Wire it up to sys_sigaltstack.
Tested on qemu petalogix-s3adsp1800 (microblazeel) with the uClibc-ng
test suite: the five sigaltstack-dependent NPTL tests (tst-cancel20/21,
tst-cancelx20/21, tst-signal6) pass; before this change sigaltstack()
returned ENOSYS.
Signed-off-by: Ramin Moussavi <ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de>
---
arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 223d26303..b4ce48e8a 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
183 common getcwd sys_getcwd
184 common capget sys_capget
185 common capset sys_capset
-186 common sigaltstack sys_ni_syscall
+186 common sigaltstack sys_sigaltstack
187 common sendfile sys_sendfile
188 common getpmsg sys_ni_syscall
189 common putpmsg sys_ni_syscall
--
2.53.0
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* [PATCH 2/2] microblaze: reserve the ABI argument-home area in the signal frame
2026-06-04 15:37 [PATCH 0/2] microblaze: fix signal-frame handling for NPTL Ramin Moussavi
2026-06-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] microblaze: wire up sigaltstack Ramin Moussavi
@ 2026-06-04 15:37 ` Ramin Moussavi
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From: Ramin Moussavi @ 2026-06-04 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Simek; +Cc: linux-kernel, Ramin Moussavi, Ramin Moussavi
The MicroBlaze procedure call standard lets a callee store its incoming
register arguments r5..r10 into the caller-provided home slots at
[r1+4]..[r1+28]. When the kernel enters a signal handler it sets r1 to
point at struct rt_sigframe, whose leading members are the siginfo and
ucontext prepared for the handler. A handler that homes its arguments -
which an unoptimised (-O0) build always does - therefore overwrites the
start of siginfo/ucontext, corrupting the signal state that the handler
and sys_rt_sigreturn() depend on.
Reserve the home area by making an eight-word gap the first member of
struct rt_sigframe, so the handler's argument stores land in scratch space
instead of clobbering siginfo.
Tested on qemu-system-microblazeel (petalogix-s3adsp1800) with the
uClibc-ng NPTL test suite: tst-timer4, tst-timer5, tst-mqueue5 and
tst-signal6 pass; before this change they failed because the handler
clobbered the signal frame.
Signed-off-by: Ramin Moussavi <ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de>
---
arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c b/arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c
index c78a0ff48..df9c07d77 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ struct sigframe {
};
struct rt_sigframe {
+ /*
+ * Home area for the handler's register arguments: the MicroBlaze
+ * ABI lets the callee store r5..r10 at [r1+4]..[r1+28], and r1
+ * points at this frame when the handler is entered. Without the
+ * gap those stores corrupt info/uc.
+ */
+ unsigned long abi_gap[8];
struct siginfo info;
struct ucontext uc;
unsigned long tramp[2]; /* signal trampoline */
--
2.53.0
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