From ae7795bc6187a15ec51cf258abae656a625f9980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:27:20 +0200 Subject: signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying around in the kernel. The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in the kernel that embed struct siginfo. So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to 128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo. The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have the same field offsets. To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h index fb97cf7c4137..a0f46bdd9f24 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h @@ -240,6 +240,6 @@ static inline bool in_compat_syscall(void) struct compat_siginfo; int __copy_siginfo_to_user32(struct compat_siginfo __user *to, - const siginfo_t *from, bool x32_ABI); + const kernel_siginfo_t *from, bool x32_ABI); #endif /* _ASM_X86_COMPAT_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3