Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage in MIPS siginfo handling

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 03:00:53PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> MIPS's siginfo handling has been broken since this commit:
> 
> 	commit 574c4866e33d648520a8bd5bf6f573ea6e554e88
> 	Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 	Date:   Sun Nov 25 22:24:19 2012 -0500
> 	consolidate kernel-side struct sigaction declarations
> 
> for 64-bit BE MIPS CPUs.
> 
> The UAPI variant looks like this:
> 
> 	struct sigaction {
> 		unsigned int	sa_flags;
> 		__sighandler_t	sa_handler;
> 		sigset_t	sa_mask;
> 	};
> 
> but the core kernel's variant looks like this:
> 
> 	struct sigaction {
> 	#ifndef __ARCH_HAS_ODD_SIGACTION
> 		__sighandler_t	sa_handler;
> 		unsigned long	sa_flags;
> 	#else
> 		unsigned long	sa_flags;
> 		__sighandler_t	sa_handler;
> 	#endif
> 	#ifdef __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER
> 		__sigrestore_t sa_restorer;
> 	#endif
> 		sigset_t	sa_mask;
> 	};
> 
> The problem is that sa_flags has been changed from an unsigned int to an
> unsigned long.
> 
> Fix this by making sa_flags unsigned int if __ARCH_HAS_ODD_SIGACTION is
> defined.
> 
> Whilst we're at it, rename __ARCH_HAS_ODD_SIGACTION to
> __ARCH_HAS_IRIX_SIGACTION.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ACKed-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

but I think it should go via mips tree (or straight to Linus, for that
matter).  I can apply it in signal.git and push it to Linus today, though...
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