Re: Linux 3.0.70

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 20 2013 - 20:15:57 EST


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:04:19PM -0600, Andrew Collins wrote:
> Kees Cook (1):
> signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
>
> This commit seems to cause the following build breakage on MIPS in 3.0.70:
>
> kernel/signal.c: In function 'flush_signal_handlers':
> kernel/signal.c:441:9: error: 'struct sigaction' has no member named
> 'sa_restorer'
> make[3]: *** [kernel/signal.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [kernel] Error 2
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> I'm testing with a variety of additional patches applied and it's a
> bit difficult to test vanilla, but this looks unrelated to my local
> patches. Looks like MIPS defines SA_RESTORER but doesn't have a
> sa_restorer in sigaction so:
>
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct *t, int
> force_default)
> if (force_default || ka->sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN)
> ka->sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
> ka->sa.sa_flags = 0;
> +#ifdef SA_RESTORER
> + ka->sa.sa_restorer = NULL;
> +#endif
> sigemptyset(&ka->sa.sa_mask);
> ka++;
> }
>
> goes kaboom.

Kees, I'm getting a number of bug reports that this patch breaks MIPS on
all of the recent stable kernel releases (3.0, 3.4, 3.8).

Any hints on a fix?

thanks,

greg k-h
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