Per Al Viro's "signals for dummies" https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/366
there are 3 golden rules for (not) restarting syscalls:
" What we need to guarantee is
* restarts do not happen on signals caught in interrupts or exceptions
* restarts do not happen on signals caught in sigreturn()
* restart should happen only once, even if we get through do_signal()
many times."
ARC Port already handled #1, this patch fixes#2 and #3.
We use the additional state in pt_regs->orig_r8 to ckh if restarting
has already been done once.
Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To avoid multiple syscall restarts (multiple signals) or no restart at
all (sigreturn), we need just an extra bit of state "literally 1 bit" in
struct pt_regs. orig_r8 is the best place to do this, however given the
way it is encoded currently, we can't add anything simplistically.
Current orig_r8:
* syscalls -> 1 to NR_SYSCALLS
* Exceptions -> NR_SYSCALLS + 1
* Break-point-> NR_SYSCALLS + 2
In new scheme it is a bit-field
* lower short word contains the exact event type (and a new bit to represent
restart semantics : if syscall was already / can't be restarted)
* upper short word optionally containing the syscall num - needed by
likes of tracehooks etc
This patch only changes how orig_r8 is organised and nothing should
change behaviourily.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
This includes support for generic clone/for/vfork/execve
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* L1_CACHE_SHIFT
* PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_OFFSET
* struct pt_regs, struct user_regs_struct
* struct thread_struct, cpu_relax(), task_pt_regs(), start_thread(), ...
* struct thread_info, THREAD_SIZE, INIT_THREAD_INFO(), TIF_*, ...
* BUG()
* ELF_*
* Elf_*
To disallow user-space visibility into some of the core kernel data-types
such as struct pt_regs, #ifdef __KERNEL__ which also makes the UAPI header
spit (further patch in the series) to NOT export it to asm/uapi/ptrace.h
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
