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From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
To: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] m68k: use conventional function parameters for do_sigreturn
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:36:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455518189-12478-1-git-send-email-gerg@uclinux.org> (raw)

Create conventional stack parameters for the calls to do_sigreturn and
do_rt_sigreturn. The current C code for do_sigreturn and do_rt_sigreturn
dig into the stack to create local pointers to the saved switch stack
and the pt_regs structs.

The motivation for this change is a problem with non-MMU targets that
have broken signal return paths on newer versions of gcc. It appears as
though gcc has determined that the pointers into the saved stack structs,
and the saved structs themselves, are function parameters and updates to
them will be lost on function return, so they are optimized away. This
results in large parts of restore_sigcontext() and mangle_kernel_stack()
functions being removed. Of course this results in non-functional code
causing kernel oops. This problem has been observed with gcc version
5.2 and 5.3, and probably exists in earlier versions as well.

Using conventional stack parameter pointers passed to these functions has
the advantage of the code here not needing to know the exact details of
how the underlying entry handler layed these structs out on the stack.
So the rather ugly pointer setup casting and arg referencing can be
removed.

The resulting code after this change is a few bytes larger (due to the
overhead of creating the stack args and their tear down). Not being hot
paths I don't think this is too much of a problem here.

An alternative solution is to put a barrier() in the do_sigreturn() code,
but this doesn't feel quite as clean as this solution.

This change has been compile tested on all defconfigs, and run tested on
Atari (through aranym), ColdFire with MMU (M5407EVB) and ColdFire with
no-MMU (QEMU and M5208EVB).

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
---
v2: reworded the commit log message with better description of problem

 arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S  | 6 ++++++
 arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c | 8 ++------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S b/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S
index b54ac7a..97cd3ea 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S
@@ -71,13 +71,19 @@ ENTRY(__sys_vfork)
 
 ENTRY(sys_sigreturn)
 	SAVE_SWITCH_STACK
+	movel	%sp,%sp@-		  | switch_stack pointer
+	pea	%sp@(SWITCH_STACK_SIZE+4) | pt_regs pointer
 	jbsr	do_sigreturn
+	addql	#8,%sp
 	RESTORE_SWITCH_STACK
 	rts
 
 ENTRY(sys_rt_sigreturn)
 	SAVE_SWITCH_STACK
+	movel	%sp,%sp@-		  | switch_stack pointer
+	pea	%sp@(SWITCH_STACK_SIZE+4) | pt_regs pointer
 	jbsr	do_rt_sigreturn
+	addql	#8,%sp
 	RESTORE_SWITCH_STACK
 	rts
 
diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
index af1c4f3..2dcee3a 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c
@@ -737,10 +737,8 @@ badframe:
 	return 1;
 }
 
-asmlinkage int do_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused)
+asmlinkage int do_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs, struct switch_stack *sw)
 {
-	struct switch_stack *sw = (struct switch_stack *) &__unused;
-	struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *) (sw + 1);
 	unsigned long usp = rdusp();
 	struct sigframe __user *frame = (struct sigframe __user *)(usp - 4);
 	sigset_t set;
@@ -764,10 +762,8 @@ badframe:
 	return 0;
 }
 
-asmlinkage int do_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long __unused)
+asmlinkage int do_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs, struct switch_stack *sw)
 {
-	struct switch_stack *sw = (struct switch_stack *) &__unused;
-	struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *) (sw + 1);
 	unsigned long usp = rdusp();
 	struct rt_sigframe __user *frame = (struct rt_sigframe __user *)(usp - 4);
 	sigset_t set;
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15  6:36 Greg Ungerer [this message]
2016-02-15 10:03 ` [PATCH v2] m68k: use conventional function parameters for do_sigreturn Philippe De Muyter
2016-02-15 13:06   ` Greg Ungerer
2016-02-15 14:57     ` Philippe De Muyter
2016-02-24  1:10 ` Greg Ungerer
2016-02-25 10:42   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-25 10:55     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-29  9:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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