linux.git/arch/um/os-Linux, branch v2.6.25

uml: fix FP register corruption

2008-02-24T01:12:15+00:00

Commit ee3d9bd4de1ed93d2a7ee41c331ed30a1c7b8acd ("uml: simplify SIGSEGV
handling"), while greatly simplifying the kernel SIGSEGV handler that
runs in the process address space, introduced a bug which corrupts FP
state in the process.

Previously, the SIGSEGV handler called the sigreturn system call by hand - it
couldn't return through the restorer provided to it because that could try to
call the libc restorer which likely wouldn't exist in the process address
space.  So, it blocked off some signals, including SIGUSR1, on entry to the
SIGSEGV handler, queued a SIGUSR1 to itself, and invoked sigreturn.  The
SIGUSR1 was delivered, and was visible to the UML kernel after sigreturn
finished.

The commit eliminated the signal masking and the call to sigreturn.  The
handler simply hits itself with a SIGTRAP to let the UML kernel know that it
is finished.  UML then restores the process registers, which effectively
longjmps the process out of the signal handler, skipping sigreturn's restoring
of register state and the signal mask.

The bug is that the host apparently sets used_fp to 0 when it saves the
process FP state in the sigcontext on the process signal stack.  Thus, when
the process is longjmped out of the handler, its FP state is corrupt because
it wasn't saved on the context switch to the UML kernel.

This manifested itself as sleep hanging.  For some reason, sleep uses floating
point in order to calculate the sleep interval.  When a page fault corrupts
its FP state, it is faked into essentially sleeping forever.

This patch saves the FP state before entering the SIGSEGV handler and restores
it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: improved error handling while locating temp dir

2008-02-08T17:22:43+00:00

* arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (make_tempfile): Don't deref NULL upon failed malloc.

* arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (make_tempfile): Handle NULL tempdir.
Don't let a long tempdir (e.g., via TMPDIR) provoke heap corruption.

[ jdike - formatting cleanups, deleted obsolete comment ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: style fixes in arch/um/os-Linux

2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00

Style changes under arch/um/os-Linux:
	include trimming
	CodingStyle fixes
	some printks needed severity indicators

make_tempfile turns out not to be used outside of mem.c, so it is now static.
Its declaration in tempfile.h is no longer needed, and tempfile.h itself is no
longer needed.

create_tmp_file was also made static.

checkpatch moans about an EXPORT_SYMBOL in user_syms.c which is part of a
macro definition - this is copying a bit of kernel infrastructure into the
libc side of UML because the kernel headers can't be included there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection

2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00

Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
recompilation.

TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size.  This gets rid of
an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.

On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
memory is.  This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
userspace is, or can be made, read-write.  I'm concerned about a system-global
VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.

On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

A bunch of config variable are gone now.  CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
by TASK_SIZE.  NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
irrelevant.  All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone.  All references to these in
arch/um/Makefile are also gone.

I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.

Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
Miklos ran into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: move register initialization

2008-02-05T17:44:31+00:00

Calling init_registers inside the skas3 checking causes mysterious crashes if
it doesn't happen because the skas3 checking is bypassed.  This patch moves it
to os_early_checks.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: add newlines to printks

2008-02-05T17:44:31+00:00

Some printks were missing newlines.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: implement O_APPEND

2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00

The .a flags in openflags never had an implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove init_irq_signals

2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00

init_irq_signals doesn't need to be called from the context of a new process.
It initializes handlers, which are useless in process context.  With that call
gone, init_irq_signals has only one caller, so it can be inlined into
init_new_thread_signals.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: signal handling tidying

2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00

This patch tidies the signal handling code slightly.

pending is renamed to signals_pending for symmetry with signals_enabled.

remove_sigstack was unused, so can be deleted.

The value of change_sig was never used, so it is now void and the
return value is not calculated any more.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: clean up sig_handler_common_skas

2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00

sig_handler_common_skas needs significant modernization, starting with
its name and storage class.

There is no need to hide the true type of the sigcontext pointer, so
the void * dummy parameter can be replaced with a sigcontext *sc.

The array of uml_pt_regs structs used in the page fault case are gone,
replaced by a local variable.  This is also used in the non-segfault
case instead of the copy in the task_struct.  Since it's local, the
special handling of the is_user flag can go away.

There hasn't been any special treatment of SIGUSR1 in ages, so the
line that enables it can be deleted.

The special treatment of SIGSEGV similarly goes away, but to
compensate, SA_NODEFER is added to sa_mask when registering a signal
handler.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds