PATCH: Make i386 signal delivery work with -mregparm

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 16:26:33 EST


This patch allows i386 signal delivery to work correctly when userspace is compiled with -mregparm. This is somewhat hacky: it passes the arguments *both* on the stack and in registers, but it works because there are only one or three (depending on SA_SIGINFO) official arguments. If you're relying on the unofficial arguments then you're doing something nonportable anyway and can put in the __attribute__((cdecl,regparm(0))) in the correct place.

Patch against current top of tree (2.6.9-rc1).

-hpa Index: linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/hpa/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 signal.c
--- linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c 13 Jul 2004 18:02:33 -0000 1.42
+++ linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c 26 Aug 2004 06:50:40 -0000
@@ -345,18 +345,20 @@
void __user *restorer;
struct sigframe __user *frame;
int err = 0;
+ int usig;

frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame));

if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
goto give_sigsegv;

- err |= __put_user((current_thread_info()->exec_domain
- && current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap
- && sig < 32
- ? current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap[sig]
- : sig),
- &frame->sig);
+ usig = current_thread_info()->exec_domain
+ && current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap
+ && sig < 32
+ ? current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap[sig]
+ : sig;
+
+ err |= __put_user(usig, &frame->sig);
if (err)
goto give_sigsegv;

@@ -395,6 +397,9 @@
/* Set up registers for signal handler */
regs->esp = (unsigned long) frame;
regs->eip = (unsigned long) ka->sa.sa_handler;
+ regs->eax = (unsigned long) sig;
+ regs->edx = (unsigned long) 0;
+ regs->ecx = (unsigned long) 0;

set_fs(USER_DS);
regs->xds = __USER_DS;
@@ -422,18 +427,20 @@
void __user *restorer;
struct rt_sigframe __user *frame;
int err = 0;
+ int usig;

frame = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(*frame));

if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
goto give_sigsegv;

- err |= __put_user((current_thread_info()->exec_domain
- && current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap
- && sig < 32
- ? current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap[sig]
- : sig),
- &frame->sig);
+ usig = current_thread_info()->exec_domain
+ && current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap
+ && sig < 32
+ ? current_thread_info()->exec_domain->signal_invmap[sig]
+ : sig;
+
+ err |= __put_user(usig, &frame->sig);
err |= __put_user(&frame->info, &frame->pinfo);
err |= __put_user(&frame->uc, &frame->puc);
err |= copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, info);
@@ -476,6 +483,9 @@
/* Set up registers for signal handler */
regs->esp = (unsigned long) frame;
regs->eip = (unsigned long) ka->sa.sa_handler;
+ regs->eax = (unsigned long) usig;
+ regs->edx = (unsigned long) &frame->info;
+ regs->ecx = (unsigned long) &frame->uc;

set_fs(USER_DS);
regs->xds = __USER_DS;