Re: [PATCH 2/2] sigaction.2: wfix - Clarify si_addr description.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 09 2021 - 09:32:56 EST


On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 01:46:07PM -0800, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
> I think the sentence above is vague, but probably for the reason that each
> arch is different. Maybe this patch is unnecessary and can be dropped?

Maybe.

If you want to clarify it, you should audit every arch. But what
would that bring? IOW, is it that important to specify when si_addr
is populated and when not...? I don't know of an example but I'm
no userspace programmer anyway, to know when this info would be
beneficial...

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Boris.

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