From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
To: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pt_regs leak into userspace (was Re: [PATCH v3 20/71] ARC: Signal handling)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:05:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511DE524.3070901@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACM3HyExw6WDtF6gtFrmLjyvPDTAKodSerChaoqUNZsSyD+b2g@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 15 February 2013 12:53 PM, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> On 11 February 2013 15:07, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest asking itanic folks; they do *not* put callee-saved stuff into
>> sigcontext. AFAICS, they don't have setcontext() implemented as a syscall
>> at all - it's done as sigprocmask() + doing to callee-saved registers what
>> longjmp() does.
>
> Just to round off this discussion, after giving it some more thought I
> agree that the case where you would need callee-saved registers
> restored is probably rather pathological. Any sane use of
> get/set/swapcontext is manageable without this.
>
> So, Vineet, I'm now convinced your approach is sound. I will probably
> amend the OpenRISC arch to behave similarly. Consider your entire
> patch Acked now.
I'll add your ack to the the signal handling patch as the contention was primarily
on sigcontext bits.
Thx,
-Vineet
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-24 10:50 [PATCH v3 00/71] Synopsys ARC Linux kernel Port (Part #1) Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/71] ARC: Generic Headers Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/71] ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker script Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 6:29 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 18:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-01-29 13:45 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-29 17:52 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-02-11 11:29 ` James Hogan
2013-02-11 11:44 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/71] ARC: uaccess friends Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 11/71] ARC: Fundamental ARCH data-types/defines Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 17/71] ARC: Syscall support (no-legacy-syscall ABI) Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 18/71] ARC: Process-creation/scheduling/idle-loop Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 19/71] ARC: Timers/counters/delay management Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 20/71] ARC: Signal handling Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 7:26 ` pt_regs leak into userspace (was Re: [PATCH v3 20/71] ARC: Signal handling) Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 9:36 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 10:13 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 10:28 ` James Hogan
2013-02-11 10:53 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 10:57 ` James Hogan
2013-02-11 11:01 ` James Hogan
2013-02-11 11:22 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 12:12 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 12:37 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 13:02 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 13:08 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 10:30 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 10:30 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-11 14:07 ` Al Viro
2013-02-15 7:23 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-15 7:35 ` Vineet Gupta [this message]
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 21/71] ARC: [Review] Preparing to fix incorrect syscall restarts due to signals Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 22/71] ARC: [Review] Prevent incorrect syscall restarts Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 7:42 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 23/71] ARC: Cache Flush Management Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 29/71] ARC: I/O and DMA Mappings Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 30/71] ARC: Boot #1: low-level, setup_arch(), /proc/cpuinfo, mem init Vineet Gupta
[not found] ` <1359024639-21915-1-git-send-email-vgupta-HKixBCOQz3hWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 32/71] ARC: [DeviceTree] Basic support Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 7:40 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 10:21 ` James Hogan
2013-01-29 9:53 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-29 9:53 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-29 10:06 ` James Hogan
[not found] ` <1359024639-21915-15-git-send-email-vgupta-HKixBCOQz3hWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-29 13:25 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 13:25 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <5107CDD3.3050502-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-29 13:39 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-29 13:39 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-29 13:55 ` [PATCH v4 " Vineet Gupta
2013-01-30 11:08 ` James Hogan
2013-01-30 11:56 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 33/71] ARC: [DeviceTree] Convert some Kconfig items to runtime values Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 34/71] ARC: [plat-arcfpga]: Enabling DeviceTree for Angel4 board Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 42/71] ARC: Module support Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 44/71] ARC: SMP support Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 48/71] ARC: kprobes support Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 57/71] ARC: Hostlink Pseudo-Driver for Metaware Debugger Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 58/71] ARC: UAPI Disintegrate arch/arc/include/asm Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-28 7:36 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 59/71] ARC: Add support for ioremap_prot API Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 62/71] ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #2: Board callback Infrastructure Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 69/71] ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 70/71] ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD Vineet Gupta
2013-01-24 11:01 ` [PATCH v3 45/71] ARC: DWARF2 .debug_frame based stack unwinder Vineet Gupta
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