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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/signal.c, branch v5.11-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-2021-01-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T17:35:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-24T17:35:28+00:00</published>
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Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Jann reported sparse complaints because of a missing __user
   annotation in a helper we added way back when we added
   pidfd_send_signal() to avoid compat syscall handling. Fix it.

 - Yanfei replaces a reference in a comment to the _do_fork() helper I
   removed a while ago with a reference to the new kernel_clone()
   replacement

 - Alexander Guril added a simple coding style fix

* tag 'for-linus-2021-01-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  kthread: remove comments about old _do_fork() helper
  Kernel: fork.c: Fix coding style: Do not use {} around single-line statements
  signal: Add missing __user annotation to copy_siginfo_from_user_any
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Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Jann reported sparse complaints because of a missing __user
   annotation in a helper we added way back when we added
   pidfd_send_signal() to avoid compat syscall handling. Fix it.

 - Yanfei replaces a reference in a comment to the _do_fork() helper I
   removed a while ago with a reference to the new kernel_clone()
   replacement

 - Alexander Guril added a simple coding style fix

* tag 'for-linus-2021-01-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  kthread: remove comments about old _do_fork() helper
  Kernel: fork.c: Fix coding style: Do not use {} around single-line statements
  signal: Add missing __user annotation to copy_siginfo_from_user_any
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<entry>
<title>signal: Add missing __user annotation to copy_siginfo_from_user_any</title>
<updated>2021-01-11T11:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-07T00:02:52+00:00</published>
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copy_siginfo_from_user_any() takes a userspace pointer as second
argument; annotate the parameter type accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201207000252.138564-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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copy_siginfo_from_user_any() takes a userspace pointer as second
argument; annotate the parameter type accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201207000252.138564-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>task_work: unconditionally run task_work from get_signal()</title>
<updated>2021-01-08T16:14:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-05T18:32:43+00:00</published>
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Song reported a boot regression in a kvm image with 5.11-rc, and bisected
it down to the below patch. Debugging this issue, turns out that the boot
stalled when a task is waiting on a pipe being released. As we no longer
run task_work from get_signal() unless it's queued with TWA_SIGNAL, the
task goes idle without running the task_work. This prevents -&gt;release()
from being called on the pipe, which another boot task is waiting on.

For now, re-instate the unconditional task_work run from get_signal().
For 5.12, we'll collapse TWA_RESUME and TWA_SIGNAL, as it no longer
makes sense to have a distinction between the two. This will turn
task_work notification into a simple boolean, whether to notify or not.

Fixes: 98b89b649fce ("signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK")
Reported-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM/Clang version 11.0.1
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Song reported a boot regression in a kvm image with 5.11-rc, and bisected
it down to the below patch. Debugging this issue, turns out that the boot
stalled when a task is waiting on a pipe being released. As we no longer
run task_work from get_signal() unless it's queued with TWA_SIGNAL, the
task goes idle without running the task_work. This prevents -&gt;release()
from being called on the pipe, which another boot task is waiting on.

For now, re-instate the unconditional task_work run from get_signal().
For 5.12, we'll collapse TWA_RESUME and TWA_SIGNAL, as it no longer
makes sense to have a distinction between the two. This will turn
task_work notification into a simple boolean, whether to notify or not.

Fixes: 98b89b649fce ("signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK")
Reported-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM/Clang version 11.0.1
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</published>
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Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T01:13:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T01:13:53+00:00</published>
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Pull core entry/exit updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of updates for entry/exit handling:

   - More generalization of entry/exit functionality

   - The consolidation work to reclaim TIF flags on x86 and also for
     non-x86 specific TIF flags which are solely relevant for syscall
     related work and have been moved into their own storage space. The
     x86 specific part had to be merged in to avoid a major conflict.

   - The TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL work which replaces the inefficient signal
     delivery mode of task work and results in an impressive performance
     improvement for io_uring. The non-x86 consolidation of this is
     going to come seperate via Jens.

   - The selective syscall redirection facility which provides a clean
     and efficient way to support the non-Linux syscalls of WINE by
     catching them at syscall entry and redirecting them to the user
     space emulation. This can be utilized for other purposes as well
     and has been designed carefully to avoid overhead for the regular
     fastpath. This includes the core changes and the x86 support code.

   - Simplification of the context tracking entry/exit handling for the
     users of the generic entry code which guarantee the proper ordering
     and protection.

   - Preparatory changes to make the generic entry code accomodate S390
     specific requirements which are mostly related to their syscall
     restart mechanism"

* tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  entry: Add syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work()
  entry: Add exit_to_user_mode() wrapper
  entry_Add_enter_from_user_mode_wrapper
  entry: Rename exit_to_user_mode()
  entry: Rename enter_from_user_mode()
  docs: Document Syscall User Dispatch
  selftests: Add benchmark for syscall user dispatch
  selftests: Add kselftest for syscall user dispatch
  entry: Support Syscall User Dispatch on common syscall entry
  kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection
  signal: Expose SYS_USER_DISPATCH si_code type
  x86: vdso: Expose sigreturn address on vdso to the kernel
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for common entry code
  entry: Fix boot for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY
  x86: Support HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Only define schedule_user() on !HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK archs
  sched: Detect call to schedule from critical entry code
  context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Introduce HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  x86: Reclaim unused x86 TI flags
  ...
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Pull core entry/exit updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of updates for entry/exit handling:

   - More generalization of entry/exit functionality

   - The consolidation work to reclaim TIF flags on x86 and also for
     non-x86 specific TIF flags which are solely relevant for syscall
     related work and have been moved into their own storage space. The
     x86 specific part had to be merged in to avoid a major conflict.

   - The TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL work which replaces the inefficient signal
     delivery mode of task work and results in an impressive performance
     improvement for io_uring. The non-x86 consolidation of this is
     going to come seperate via Jens.

   - The selective syscall redirection facility which provides a clean
     and efficient way to support the non-Linux syscalls of WINE by
     catching them at syscall entry and redirecting them to the user
     space emulation. This can be utilized for other purposes as well
     and has been designed carefully to avoid overhead for the regular
     fastpath. This includes the core changes and the x86 support code.

   - Simplification of the context tracking entry/exit handling for the
     users of the generic entry code which guarantee the proper ordering
     and protection.

   - Preparatory changes to make the generic entry code accomodate S390
     specific requirements which are mostly related to their syscall
     restart mechanism"

* tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  entry: Add syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work()
  entry: Add exit_to_user_mode() wrapper
  entry_Add_enter_from_user_mode_wrapper
  entry: Rename exit_to_user_mode()
  entry: Rename enter_from_user_mode()
  docs: Document Syscall User Dispatch
  selftests: Add benchmark for syscall user dispatch
  selftests: Add kselftest for syscall user dispatch
  entry: Support Syscall User Dispatch on common syscall entry
  kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection
  signal: Expose SYS_USER_DISPATCH si_code type
  x86: vdso: Expose sigreturn address on vdso to the kernel
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for common entry code
  entry: Fix boot for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY
  x86: Support HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Only define schedule_user() on !HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK archs
  sched: Detect call to schedule from critical entry code
  context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Introduce HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  x86: Reclaim unused x86 TI flags
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL</title>
<updated>2020-12-12T16:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-09T22:04:39+00:00</published>
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It's available everywhere now, no need to check or add dummy defines.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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It's available everywhere now, no need to check or add dummy defines.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK</title>
<updated>2020-12-12T16:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-09T22:03:01+00:00</published>
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It's no longer used, get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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It's no longer used, get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: define the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS bit in sa_flags</title>
<updated>2020-11-23T16:31:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-20T20:33:45+00:00</published>
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Architectures that support address tagging, such as arm64, may want to
expose fault address tag bits to the signal handler to help diagnose
memory errors. However, these bits have not been previously set,
and their presence may confuse unaware user applications. Therefore,
introduce a SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS flag bit in sa_flags that a signal
handler may use to explicitly request that the bits are set.

The generic signal handler APIs expect to receive tagged addresses.
Architectures may specify how to untag addresses in the case where
SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS is clear by defining the arch_untagged_si_addr
function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I16dd0ed2081f091fce97be0190cb8caa874c26cb
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/13cf24d00ebdd8e1f55caf1821c7c29d54100191.1605904350.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Architectures that support address tagging, such as arm64, may want to
expose fault address tag bits to the signal handler to help diagnose
memory errors. However, these bits have not been previously set,
and their presence may confuse unaware user applications. Therefore,
introduce a SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS flag bit in sa_flags that a signal
handler may use to explicitly request that the bits are set.

The generic signal handler APIs expect to receive tagged addresses.
Architectures may specify how to untag addresses in the case where
SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS is clear by defining the arch_untagged_si_addr
function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I16dd0ed2081f091fce97be0190cb8caa874c26cb
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/13cf24d00ebdd8e1f55caf1821c7c29d54100191.1605904350.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: define the SA_UNSUPPORTED bit in sa_flags</title>
<updated>2020-11-23T16:31:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T03:17:25+00:00</published>
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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, &amp;act, 0);
  sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0, &amp;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 &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
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 &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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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, &amp;act, 0);
  sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0, &amp;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 &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
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 &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: clear non-uapi flag bits when passing/returning sa_flags</title>
<updated>2020-11-23T16:31:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-13T02:53:34+00:00</published>
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Previously we were not clearing non-uapi flag bits in
sigaction.sa_flags when storing the userspace-provided sa_flags or
when returning them via oldact. Start doing so.

This allows userspace to detect missing support for flag bits and
allows the kernel to use non-uapi bits internally, as we are already
doing in arch/x86 for two flag bits. Now that this change is in
place, we no longer need the code in arch/x86 that was hiding these
bits from userspace, so remove it.

This is technically a userspace-visible behavior change for sigaction, as
the unknown bits returned via oldact.sa_flags are no longer set. However,
we are free to define the behavior for unknown bits exactly because
their behavior is currently undefined, so for now we can define the
meaning of each of them to be "clear the bit in oldact.sa_flags unless
the bit becomes known in the future". Furthermore, this behavior is
consistent with OpenBSD [1], illumos [2] and XNU [3] (FreeBSD [4] and
NetBSD [5] fail the syscall if unknown bits are set). So there is some
precedent for this behavior in other kernels, and in particular in XNU,
which is probably the most popular kernel among those that I looked at,
which means that this change is less likely to be a compatibility issue.

Link: [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/f634a6a4b5bf832e9c1de77f7894ae2625e74484/sys/kern/kern_sig.c#L278
Link: [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/76f19f5fdc974fe5be5c82a556e43a4df93f1de1/usr/src/uts/common/syscall/sigaction.c#L86
Link: [3] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/a449c6a3b8014d9406c2ddbdc81795da24aa7443/bsd/kern/kern_sig.c#L480
Link: [4] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/eded70c37057857c6e23fae51f86b8f8f43cd2d0/sys/kern/kern_sig.c#L699
Link: [5] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/3365779becdcedfca206091a645a0e8e22b2946e/sys/kern/sys_sig.c#L473
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I35aab6f5be932505d90f3b3450c083b4db1eca86
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/878dbcb5f47bc9b11881c81f745c0bef5c23f97f.1605235762.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Previously we were not clearing non-uapi flag bits in
sigaction.sa_flags when storing the userspace-provided sa_flags or
when returning them via oldact. Start doing so.

This allows userspace to detect missing support for flag bits and
allows the kernel to use non-uapi bits internally, as we are already
doing in arch/x86 for two flag bits. Now that this change is in
place, we no longer need the code in arch/x86 that was hiding these
bits from userspace, so remove it.

This is technically a userspace-visible behavior change for sigaction, as
the unknown bits returned via oldact.sa_flags are no longer set. However,
we are free to define the behavior for unknown bits exactly because
their behavior is currently undefined, so for now we can define the
meaning of each of them to be "clear the bit in oldact.sa_flags unless
the bit becomes known in the future". Furthermore, this behavior is
consistent with OpenBSD [1], illumos [2] and XNU [3] (FreeBSD [4] and
NetBSD [5] fail the syscall if unknown bits are set). So there is some
precedent for this behavior in other kernels, and in particular in XNU,
which is probably the most popular kernel among those that I looked at,
which means that this change is less likely to be a compatibility issue.

Link: [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/f634a6a4b5bf832e9c1de77f7894ae2625e74484/sys/kern/kern_sig.c#L278
Link: [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/76f19f5fdc974fe5be5c82a556e43a4df93f1de1/usr/src/uts/common/syscall/sigaction.c#L86
Link: [3] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/a449c6a3b8014d9406c2ddbdc81795da24aa7443/bsd/kern/kern_sig.c#L480
Link: [4] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/eded70c37057857c6e23fae51f86b8f8f43cd2d0/sys/kern/kern_sig.c#L699
Link: [5] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/3365779becdcedfca206091a645a0e8e22b2946e/sys/kern/sys_sig.c#L473
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I35aab6f5be932505d90f3b3450c083b4db1eca86
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/878dbcb5f47bc9b11881c81f745c0bef5c23f97f.1605235762.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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