On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:56:20AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/20/2013 11:25 PM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: > > > >> Am 20.03.2013 21:15, schrieb Greg KH: > >>> I'm announcing the release of the 3.8.4 kernel. > > ... > >>> signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve > >> consider that this kernel is not compileable on mips targets due the > >> patch in kernel/signal.c > >> > >> SA_RESTORER is defined in mips, but sa_restorer does not exist on that > >> platform > > > > The same for ia64... > > > > kernel/signal.c: In function 'flush_signal_handlers': > > kernel/signal.c:441: error: 'struct sigaction' has no member named > > 'sa_restorer' > > > > Do we need this in 3.0, 3.4, 3.8 too? > > commit 522cff142d7d2f9230839c9e1f21a4d8bcc22a4a > > Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed Mar 13 14:59:34 2013 -0700 > > > > kernel/signal.c: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER > > > > __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER is the preferred conditional for use in 3.9 and > > later kernels, per Kees. > > Hrm, if so, we'll need to also backport the changes that aded > __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER... Ok, well, can someone provide me the needed patches? Otherwise I will have to revert the offending change from the stable releases. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html