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linux/include/uapi/asm-generic
Peter Collingbourne a54f0dfda7 signal: define the SA_UNSUPPORTED bit in sa_flags
Define a sa_flags bit, SA_UNSUPPORTED, which will never be supported
in the uapi. The purpose of this flag bit is to allow userspace to
distinguish an old kernel that does not clear unknown sa_flags bits
from a kernel that supports every flag bit.

In other words, if userspace does something like:

  act.sa_flags |= SA_UNSUPPORTED;
  sigaction(SIGSEGV, &act, 0);
  sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0, &oldact);

and finds that SA_UNSUPPORTED remains set in oldact.sa_flags, it means
that the kernel cannot be trusted to have cleared unknown flag bits
from sa_flags, so no assumptions about flag bit support can be made.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic2501ad150a3a79c1cf27fb8c99be342e9dffbcb
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bda7ddff8895a9bc4ffc5f3cf3d4d37a32118077.1605582887.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-11-23 10:31:06 -06:00
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