iwmmxt signal frame handling

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Oct 14 10:09:10 EDT 2010


Peter Maydell noticed during code review that the signal frame might
be written incorrectly for kernels with CONFIG_IWMMXT set running
processes without TIF_USING_IWMMXT, where the magic/size values
for the iwmmxt section of the frame are left uninitialized.
Instead of skipping this part of the frame, we should instead
write a valid header with zero data.

This patch is compile-tested only since the problem was only
found in review and neither Peter nor myself have access to
IWMMXT capable hardware to test this on.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org>

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ static int preserve_iwmmxt_context(struct iwmmxt_sigframe *frame)
 	kframe = (struct iwmmxt_sigframe *)((unsigned long)(kbuf + 8) & ~7);
 	kframe->magic = IWMMXT_MAGIC;
 	kframe->size = IWMMXT_STORAGE_SIZE;
-	iwmmxt_task_copy(current_thread_info(), &kframe->storage);
+	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_USING_IWMMXT))
+		iwmmxt_task_copy(current_thread_info(), &kframe->storage);
+	else
+		memset(&kframe->storage, 0, sizeof(kframe->storage));
 	return __copy_to_user(frame, kframe, sizeof(*frame));
 }
 
@@ -429,7 +432,7 @@ setup_sigframe(struct sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set)
 		err |= preserve_crunch_context(&aux->crunch);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_IWMMXT
-	if (err == 0 && test_thread_flag(TIF_USING_IWMMXT))
+	if (err == 0)
 		err |= preserve_iwmmxt_context(&aux->iwmmxt);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_VFP



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