Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 03/16/2018 12:00 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 01/15/2018 04:40 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> The addr_lsb fields is only valid and available when the
>>> signal is SIGBUS and the si_code is BUS_MCEERR_AR or BUS_MCEERR_AO.
>>> Document this with a comment and place the field in the _sigfault union
>>> to make this clear.
>>>
>>> All of the fields stay in the same physical location so both the old
>>> and new definitions of struct siginfo will continue to work.
>>
>> This breaks the ABI and breaks protection keys. The physical locations
>> *DO* change.
>>
>> Before this patch:
>>
>> #define si_pkey _sifields._sigfault._pkey
>> (gdb) print &((siginfo_t *)0)->_sifields._sigfault._pkey
>> $1 = (__u32 *) 0x20 <irq_stack_union+32>
>>
>> and after:
>>
>> +#define si_pkey _sifields._sigfault._addr_pkey._pkey
>> (gdb) print &((siginfo_t *)0)->_sifields._sigfault._addr_pkey._pkey
>> $1 = (__u32 *) 0x1c
>>
>> Can we revert this, please?
>
> It does not revert cleanly so I reverted it manually. Patch doing that
> is attached. Should we do this, or is there a better option?
Please see:
859d880cf544 ("signal: Correct the offset of si_pkey in struct siginfo")
Eric
