Patch "signal/metag: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    signal/metag: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     signal-metag-document-a-conflict-with-si_user-with-sigfpe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 10:16:32 CEST 2018
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 10:37:40 -0500
Subject: signal/metag: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


[ Upstream commit b80328be53c215346b153769267b38f531d89b4f ]

Setting si_code to 0 results in a userspace seeing an si_code of 0.
This is the same si_code as SI_USER.  Posix and common sense requires
that SI_USER not be a signal specific si_code.  As such this use of 0
for the si_code is a pretty horribly broken ABI.

Further use of si_code == 0 guaranteed that copy_siginfo_to_user saw a
value of __SI_KILL and now sees a value of SIL_KILL with the result
hat uid and pid fields are copied and which might copying the si_addr
field by accident but certainly not by design.  Making this a very
flakey implementation.

Utilizing FPE_FIXME siginfo_layout will now return SIL_FAULT and the
appropriate fields will reliably be copied.

Possible ABI fixes includee:
  - Send the signal without siginfo
  - Don't generate a signal
  - Possibly assign and use an appropriate si_code
  - Don't handle cases which can't happen

Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Ref: ac919f0883e5 ("metag: Traps")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/metag/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h |    7 +++++++
 arch/metag/kernel/traps.c             |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/metag/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
+++ b/arch/metag/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
@@ -6,4 +6,11 @@
 
 #include <asm-generic/siginfo.h>
 
+/*
+ * SIGFPE si_codes
+ */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#define FPE_FIXME      0       /* Broken dup of SI_USER */
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
 #endif
--- a/arch/metag/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/metag/kernel/traps.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ TBIRES fpe_handler(TBIRES State, int Sig
 	else if (error_state & TXSTAT_FPE_INEXACT_BIT)
 		info.si_code = FPE_FLTRES;
 	else
-		info.si_code = 0;
+		info.si_code = FPE_FIXME;
 	info.si_errno = 0;
 	info.si_addr = (__force void __user *)regs->ctx.CurrPC;
 	force_sig_info(SIGFPE, &info, current);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xmission.com are

queue-4.15/signal-metag-document-a-conflict-with-si_user-with-sigfpe.patch
queue-4.15/signal-arm-document-conflicts-with-si_user-and-sigfpe.patch
queue-4.15/signal-powerpc-document-conflicts-with-si_user-and-sigfpe-and-sigtrap.patch