Re: [PATCH] Fix siginfo._uid bug

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Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The bug is rather elegant and has been present in sources for years.

For more than 9 years, to be precise, when 32 bit uids were introduced.
...
Given that there is no way to keep backward compatibility it might be a
good opportunity to do same cleanup here.  Like going back to the
generic layout.

There is yet another bug in siginfo. si_sigval is expected to be at the same offsets in _timer and _rt. At the moment si_sigval is at offset 8 in _timer and at offset 6 in _rt (the patch for fixing uids makes that 8@_timer and 10@_rt).

This bug causes rt/tst-*timer* tests fail.

Moving on to the generic version of siginfo.h will certainly fix the problem, otherwise, one needs to pad extra 2 bytes in _timer.

While the discussion is pending, here is an updated version of the patch that also patches up sigval.

Ping?  Broken signal handling is a quite serious bug.

Geert, which option of fixing would you prefer?

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