summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/linux-user/syscall.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2016-06-14 12:49:18 +0100
committerRiku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>2016-06-26 13:17:20 +0300
commit1d48fdd9d84aab1bd32c1f70947932f5d90f92aa (patch)
treedee8a5037d9909fdb0201fd60230d399ab26e899 /linux-user/syscall.c
parent435da5e7092aa54e12044b9401b42c4a9333c74d (diff)
downloadqemu-1d48fdd9d84aab1bd32c1f70947932f5d90f92aa.zip
linux-user: Don't use sigfillset() on uc->uc_sigmask
The kernel and libc have different ideas about what a sigset_t is -- for the kernel it is only _NSIG / 8 bytes in size (usually 8 bytes), but for libc it is much larger, 128 bytes. In most situations the difference doesn't matter, because if you pass a pointer to a libc sigset_t to the kernel it just acts on the first 8 bytes of it, but for the ucontext_t* argument to a signal handler it trips us up. The kernel allocates this ucontext_t on the stack according to its idea of the sigset_t type, but the type of the ucontext_t defined by the libc headers uses the libc type, and so do the manipulator functions like sigfillset(). This means that (1) sizeof(uc->uc_sigmask) is much larger than the actual space used on the stack (2) sigfillset(&uc->uc_sigmask) will write garbage 0xff bytes off the end of the structure, which can trash data that was on the stack before the signal handler was invoked, and may result in a crash after the handler returns To avoid this, we use a memset() of the correct size to fill the signal mask rather than using the libc function. This fixes a problem where we would crash at least some of the time on an i386 host when a signal was taken. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux-user/syscall.c')
-rw-r--r--linux-user/syscall.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 3dfaea9c8e..5166ff9b62 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -123,11 +123,6 @@ int __clone2(int (*fn)(void *), void *child_stack_base,
#define VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH _IOR('r', 1, struct linux_dirent [2])
#define VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_SHORT _IOR('r', 2, struct linux_dirent [2])
-/* This is the size of the host kernel's sigset_t, needed where we make
- * direct system calls that take a sigset_t pointer and a size.
- */
-#define SIGSET_T_SIZE (_NSIG / 8)
-
#undef _syscall0
#undef _syscall1
#undef _syscall2