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author | Marco Elver <elver@google.com> | 2021-04-22 21:18:22 +0200 |
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committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2021-04-23 09:03:16 +0200 |
commit | 3ddb3fd8cdb0a6c11b7c8d91ba42d84c4ea3cc43 (patch) | |
tree | 458583355f514c9ce5e4d9bba961ce02c0e71583 /include/linux/compat.h | |
parent | 32d35c4a96ec79446f0d7be308a6eb248b507a0b (diff) |
signal, perf: Fix siginfo_t by avoiding u64 on 32-bit architectures
The alignment of a structure is that of its largest member. On
architectures like 32-bit Arm (but not e.g. 32-bit x86) 64-bit integers
will require 64-bit alignment and not its natural word size.
This means that there is no portable way to add 64-bit integers to
siginfo_t on 32-bit architectures without breaking the ABI, because
siginfo_t does not yet (and therefore likely never will) contain 64-bit
fields on 32-bit architectures. Adding a 64-bit integer could change the
alignment of the union after the 3 initial int si_signo, si_errno,
si_code, thus introducing 4 bytes of padding shifting the entire union,
which would break the ABI.
One alternative would be to use the __packed attribute, however, it is
non-standard C. Given siginfo_t has definitions outside the Linux kernel
in various standard libraries that can be compiled with any number of
different compilers (not just those we rely on), using non-standard
attributes on siginfo_t should be avoided to ensure portability.
In the case of the si_perf field, word size is sufficient since there is
no exact requirement on size, given the data it contains is user-defined
via perf_event_attr::sig_data. On 32-bit architectures, any excess bits
of perf_event_attr::sig_data will therefore be truncated when copying
into si_perf.
Since si_perf is intended to disambiguate events (e.g. encoding relevant
information if there are more events of the same type), 32 bits should
provide enough entropy to do so on 32-bit architectures.
For 64-bit architectures, no change is intended.
Fixes: fb6cc127e0b6 ("signal: Introduce TRAP_PERF si_code and si_perf to siginfo")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422191823.79012-1-elver@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compat.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compat.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h index c8821d966812..f0d2dd35d408 100644 --- a/include/linux/compat.h +++ b/include/linux/compat.h @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ typedef struct compat_siginfo { u32 _pkey; } _addr_pkey; /* used when si_code=TRAP_PERF */ - compat_u64 _perf; + compat_ulong_t _perf; }; } _sigfault; |