[PATCH 1/2] um: Preserve errno within signal handler

Tiwei Bie tiwei.btw at antgroup.com
Mon Jan 5 16:12:27 PST 2026


We rely on errno to determine whether a syscall has failed, so we
need to ensure that accessing errno is async-signal-safe. Currently,
we preserve the errno in sig_handler_common(), but it doesn't cover
every possible case. Let's do it in hard_handler() instead, which
is the signal handler we actually register.

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw at antgroup.com>
---
 arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
index 327fb3c52fc7..de372b936a80 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ void (*sig_info[NSIG])(int, struct siginfo *, struct uml_pt_regs *, void *mc) =
 static void sig_handler_common(int sig, struct siginfo *si, mcontext_t *mc)
 {
 	struct uml_pt_regs r;
-	int save_errno = errno;
 
 	r.is_user = 0;
 	if (sig == SIGSEGV) {
@@ -50,8 +49,6 @@ static void sig_handler_common(int sig, struct siginfo *si, mcontext_t *mc)
 		unblock_signals_trace();
 
 	(*sig_info[sig])(sig, si, &r, mc);
-
-	errno = save_errno;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -207,8 +204,11 @@ static void hard_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *p)
 {
 	ucontext_t *uc = p;
 	mcontext_t *mc = &uc->uc_mcontext;
+	int save_errno = errno;
 
 	(*handlers[sig])(sig, (struct siginfo *)si, mc);
+
+	errno = save_errno;
 }
 
 void set_handler(int sig)
-- 
2.34.1




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