From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: maddy@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [1/2] powerpc/uapi: Fix sigcontext definition to use user_pt_regs
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:38:20 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42drzx12rGz9sDC@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181015120143.1248-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 12:01:42 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> My recent patch to split pt_regs between user and kernel missed
> the usage in struct sigcontext.
>
> Because this is a user visible struct it should be using the user
> visible definition, which when we're building for the kernel is called
> struct user_pt_regs.
>
> As far as I can see this hasn't actually caused a bug (yet), because
> we don't use the sizeof() the sigcontext->regs anywhere. But we should
> still fix it to avoid confusion and future bugs.
>
> Fixes: 002af9391bfb ("powerpc: Split user/kernel definitions of struct pt_regs")
> Reported-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/22a3d03d69dfd3bfc606d199696982
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-22 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-15 12:01 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/uapi: Fix sigcontext definition to use user_pt_regs Michael Ellerman
2018-10-15 12:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/aout: Fix struct user " Michael Ellerman
2018-10-22 9:38 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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