Re: [PATCH 4.19 087/361] signal: Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in compat_sys_sigaltstack

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:49:05AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 02:17:14PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> >------------------
> >
> >From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >[ Upstream commit 22839869f21ab3850fbbac9b425ccc4c0023926f ]
> >
> >The sigaltstack(2) system call fails with -ENOMEM if the new alternative
> >signal stack is found to be smaller than SIGMINSTKSZ. On architectures
> >such as arm64, where the native value for SIGMINSTKSZ is larger than
> >the compat value, this can result in an unexpected error being reported
> >to a compat task. See, for example:
> >
> >  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904385
> 
> ...
> 
> Thanks Greg! If it's not too much effort, could you also take this for
> 4.9-stable as well please? That would get it into our next Debian
> stable update too. :-)

Does not apply to 4.9.y, can you provide a working backport?

thanks,

greg k-h



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