From a54f0dfda754c5cecc89a14dab68a3edc1e497b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Collingbourne Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:17:25 -0800 Subject: signal: define the SA_UNSUPPORTED bit in sa_flags Define a sa_flags bit, SA_UNSUPPORTED, which will never be supported in the uapi. The purpose of this flag bit is to allow userspace to distinguish an old kernel that does not clear unknown sa_flags bits from a kernel that supports every flag bit. In other words, if userspace does something like: act.sa_flags |= SA_UNSUPPORTED; sigaction(SIGSEGV, &act, 0); sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0, &oldact); and finds that SA_UNSUPPORTED remains set in oldact.sa_flags, it means that the kernel cannot be trusted to have cleared unknown flag bits from sa_flags, so no assumptions about flag bit support can be made. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Reviewed-by: Dave Martin Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic2501ad150a3a79c1cf27fb8c99be342e9dffbcb Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bda7ddff8895a9bc4ffc5f3cf3d4d37a32118077.1605582887.git.pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- kernel/signal.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 8f5bd12ee41b..8f34819e80de 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -3985,6 +3985,12 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact) if (oact) *oact = *k; + /* + * Make sure that we never accidentally claim to support SA_UNSUPPORTED, + * e.g. by having an architecture use the bit in their uapi. + */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(UAPI_SA_FLAGS & SA_UNSUPPORTED); + /* * Clear unknown flag bits in order to allow userspace to detect missing * support for flag bits and to allow the kernel to use non-uapi bits -- cgit v1.2.3