Re: [tip:core/signals] signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:50:06AM -0700, tip-bot for Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Commit-ID:  407bc16ad1769f5cb8ad9555611cb198187ef4cd
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/407bc16ad1769f5cb8ad9555611cb198187ef4cd
> Author:     Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:20:03 +0300
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Tue, 3 May 2016 08:37:59 +0200
> 
> signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags
> 
> This patch adds SS_FLAG_BITS - the mask that splits sigaltstack
> mode values and bit-flags. Since there is no bit-flags yet, the
> mask is defined to 0. The flags are added by subsequent patches.
> With every new flag, the mask should have the appropriate bit cleared.
> 
> This makes sure if some flag is tried on a kernel that doesn't
> support it, the -EINVAL error will be returned, because such a
> flag will be treated as an invalid mode rather than the bit-flag.
> 
> That way the existence of the particular features can be probed
> at run-time.
> 
> This change was suggested by Andy Lutomirski:
> 
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/158

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> Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-3-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/signal.h |  3 +++
>  kernel/signal.c             | 16 ++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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