mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:54:51 +0000 (04:54 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 5 Mar 2016 14:00:06 +0000 (15:00 +0100)
Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226164406.065a1ffc@canb.auug.org.au

... caused by the Memory Protection Keys patches from the tip tree triggering
a newly introduced build-time sanity check on an ARM build, because they changed
the ABI of siginfo in an unexpected way.

If u64 has a natural alignment of 8 bytes (which is the case on most mainstream
platforms, with the notable exception of x86-32), then the leadup to the
_sifields union matters:

typedef struct siginfo {
        int si_signo;
        int si_errno;
        int si_code;

        union {
...
        } _sifields;
} __ARCH_SI_ATTRIBUTES siginfo_t;

Note how the first 3 fields give us 12 bytes, so _sifields is not 8
naturally bytes aligned.

Before the _pkey field addition the largest element of _sifields (on
32-bit platforms) was 32 bits. With the u64 added, the minimum alignment
requirement increased to 8 bytes on those (rare) 32-bit platforms. Thus
GCC padded the space after si_code with 4 extra bytes, and shifted all
_sifields offsets by 4 bytes - breaking the ABI of all of those
remaining fields.

On 64-bit platforms this problem was hidden due to _sifields already
having numerous fields with natural 8 bytes alignment (pointers).

To fix this, we replace the u64 with an '__u32'.  The __u32 does not
increase the minimum alignment requirement of the union, and it is
also large enough to store the 16-bit pkey we have today on x86.

Reported-by: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd0ea35ff551 ("signals, pkeys: Notify userspace about protection key faults")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301125451.02C7426D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

index 0151cfa..f72bf01 100644 (file)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
                                        void __user *_upper;
                                } _addr_bnd;
                                /* used when si_code=SEGV_PKUERR */
-                               u64 _pkey;
+                               __u32 _pkey;
                        };
                } _sigfault;
 
index 6f4edf0..cc49dc2 100644 (file)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
                                        void __user *_upper;
                                } _addr_bnd;
                                /* used when si_code=SEGV_PKUERR */
-                               u64 _pkey;
+                               __u32 _pkey;
                        };
                } _sigfault;
 
index 90384d5..1abaf62 100644 (file)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
                                        void __user *_upper;
                                } _addr_bnd;
                                /* used when si_code=SEGV_PKUERR */
-                               u64 _pkey;
+                               __u32 _pkey;
                        };
                } _sigfault;