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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h b/arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h
index 72bbb519d2d..6dd7e2b70a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h
@@ -3,9 +3,18 @@ struct sigframe {
char __user *pretcode;
int sig;
struct sigcontext sc;
- struct _fpstate fpstate;
+ /*
+ * fpstate is unused. fpstate is moved/allocated after
+ * retcode[] below. This movement allows to have the FP state and the
+ * future state extensions (xsave) stay together.
+ * And at the same time retaining the unused fpstate, prevents changing
+ * the offset of extramask[] in the sigframe and thus prevent any
+ * legacy application accessing/modifying it.
+ */
+ struct _fpstate fpstate_unused;
unsigned long extramask[_NSIG_WORDS-1];
char retcode[8];
+ /* fp state follows here */
};
struct rt_sigframe {
@@ -15,13 +24,14 @@ struct rt_sigframe {
void __user *puc;
struct siginfo info;
struct ucontext uc;
- struct _fpstate fpstate;
char retcode[8];
+ /* fp state follows here */
};
#else
struct rt_sigframe {
char __user *pretcode;
struct ucontext uc;
struct siginfo info;
+ /* fp state follows here */
};
#endif