Re: [RFC][CFT] signal handling fixes

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, Al Viro wrote:

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:21:52PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, Al Viro wrote:


	The series is on top of 5.14-rc1; it lives in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #untested.m68k
Individual patches in followups...

	_Very_ lightly tested on aranym; no real hardware to test it on.
Any help with review and testing would be very welcome.


I can test this branch on a Motorola 68040 machine I have here. Can you 
advise how to get decent code coverage? Maybe there's a package out there 
with a signal-heavy test suite? Maybe I need a break point in a signal 
handler? Or perhaps just send ^C to a process running under strace?

Generally, SIGINT is not the best insertion vector...


True. I see that 'man 7 signal' says that SIGQUIT will produce a coredump. 
Would that contain anything of interest?

Set a handler of e.g. SIGALRM with sigaction(), with a couple of other signals
in sa_mask (e.g. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2).  With raise() on those inside the
SIGALRM handler - then they will become deliverable on return from handler.
And have SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 handlers print siginfo and ucontext contents
(have them set with SA_SIGINFO in sa_flags, look at the second and third
arguments of sighandler).

Use alarm(2) to arrange for SIGALRM and sit in a tight loop - that'll give you
delivery on return from interrupt.  Alternatively, raise(SIGALRM) will give
you delivery on return from trap.  And making that a SIGBUS handler instead,
mmapping a file, truncating it to 0 and dereferencing something in mmapped
area will give you delivery on return from access error trap.  Division by
zero (and insertion handler on SIGFPE) ought to give you a type 2 exception
stack frame (4 bytes of aux data, that makes shifted exception frame bugger
format and vector fields of the original).

FWIW, the third argument of handler points to
struct ucontext {
        unsigned long     uc_flags;
        struct ucontext  *uc_link;
        stack_t           uc_stack;
        struct mcontext   uc_mcontext;
        unsigned long     uc_filler[80];
        sigset_t          uc_sigmask;   /* mask last for extensibility */
};
and type/vector is stored in uc_filler[54] (216 bytes into the array), with
aux data from exception stack frame starting from uc_filler[55].


OK, give me a week or so and I'll see what I can come up with. 



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