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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Dave.Martin@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: signal: Ensure signal delivery failure is recoverable
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:51:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z1siulo_PKdI3xC_@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a70cd007-a2c8-477f-972e-fa1e9c362604@sirena.org.uk>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:26:47PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:10:14PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 04:47:46PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > Fixes: eaf62ce1563b ("arm64/signal: Set up and restore the GCS context for signal handlers")
> > > 
> > > Presumably we also need a Fixes for whatever introduced the above copy.
> > 
> > Hmm, it was like this from the beginning. If we are to do a cc stable to
> > the oldest maintained LTS, I'd rather have a separate patch for
> > copy_siginfo_to_user(), it doesn't make much sense to backport a GCS
> > patch to early kernels.
> 
> Hrm, good point about it triggering backports.  I'm not sure it's worth
> doing that TBH.

I had the same thoughts. I think this was mostly triggered by the
POR_EL0 changes when Will raised the point that the kernel might return
with a more privileged value in this sysreg.

-- 
Catalin


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-12 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-10 16:09 [PATCH v2] arm64: signal: Ensure signal delivery failure is recoverable Kevin Brodsky
2024-12-12 14:35 ` Dave Martin
2024-12-12 16:01   ` Kevin Brodsky
2024-12-12 16:47 ` Mark Brown
2024-12-12 17:10   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-12-12 17:26     ` Mark Brown
2024-12-12 17:51       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2024-12-13  9:15         ` Kevin Brodsky
2024-12-13 14:55 ` Catalin Marinas

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