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<title>arm64: compat: Do not treat syscall number as ESR_ELx for a bad syscall</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:20:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandru Elisei</name>
<email>alexandru.elisei@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-25T11:44:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3fed9e551417b84038b15117732ea4505eee386b ]

If a compat process tries to execute an unknown system call above the
__ARM_NR_COMPAT_END number, the kernel sends a SIGILL signal to the
offending process. Information about the error is printed to dmesg in
compat_arm_syscall() -&gt; arm64_notify_die() -&gt; arm64_force_sig_fault() -&gt;
arm64_show_signal().

arm64_show_signal() interprets a non-zero value for
current-&gt;thread.fault_code as an exception syndrome and displays the
message associated with the ESR_ELx.EC field (bits 31:26).
current-&gt;thread.fault_code is set in compat_arm_syscall() -&gt;
arm64_notify_die() with the bad syscall number instead of a valid ESR_ELx
value. This means that the ESR_ELx.EC field has the value that the user set
for the syscall number and the kernel can end up printing bogus exception
messages*. For example, for the syscall number 0x68000000, which evaluates
to ESR_ELx.EC value of 0x1A (ESR_ELx_EC_FPAC) the kernel prints this error:

[   18.349161] syscall[300]: unhandled exception: ERET/ERETAA/ERETAB, ESR 0x68000000, Oops - bad compat syscall(2) in syscall[10000+50000]
[   18.350639] CPU: 2 PID: 300 Comm: syscall Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1 #79
[   18.351249] Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.0 (DT)
[..]

which is misleading, as the bad compat syscall has nothing to do with
pointer authentication.

Stop arm64_show_signal() from printing exception syndrome information by
having compat_arm_syscall() set the ESR_ELx value to 0, as it has no
meaning for an invalid system call number. The example above now becomes:

[   19.935275] syscall[301]: unhandled exception: Oops - bad compat syscall(2) in syscall[10000+50000]
[   19.936124] CPU: 1 PID: 301 Comm: syscall Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-00005-g7e08006d4102 #80
[   19.936894] Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.0 (DT)
[..]

which although shows less information because the syscall number,
wrongfully advertised as the ESR value, is missing, it is better than
showing plainly wrong information. The syscall number can be easily
obtained with strace.

*A 32-bit value above or equal to 0x8000_0000 is interpreted as a negative
integer in compat_arm_syscal() and the condition scno &lt; __ARM_NR_COMPAT_END
evaluates to true; the syscall will exit to userspace in this case with the
ENOSYS error code instead of arm64_notify_die() being called.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220425114444.368693-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3fed9e551417b84038b15117732ea4505eee386b ]

If a compat process tries to execute an unknown system call above the
__ARM_NR_COMPAT_END number, the kernel sends a SIGILL signal to the
offending process. Information about the error is printed to dmesg in
compat_arm_syscall() -&gt; arm64_notify_die() -&gt; arm64_force_sig_fault() -&gt;
arm64_show_signal().

arm64_show_signal() interprets a non-zero value for
current-&gt;thread.fault_code as an exception syndrome and displays the
message associated with the ESR_ELx.EC field (bits 31:26).
current-&gt;thread.fault_code is set in compat_arm_syscall() -&gt;
arm64_notify_die() with the bad syscall number instead of a valid ESR_ELx
value. This means that the ESR_ELx.EC field has the value that the user set
for the syscall number and the kernel can end up printing bogus exception
messages*. For example, for the syscall number 0x68000000, which evaluates
to ESR_ELx.EC value of 0x1A (ESR_ELx_EC_FPAC) the kernel prints this error:

[   18.349161] syscall[300]: unhandled exception: ERET/ERETAA/ERETAB, ESR 0x68000000, Oops - bad compat syscall(2) in syscall[10000+50000]
[   18.350639] CPU: 2 PID: 300 Comm: syscall Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1 #79
[   18.351249] Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.0 (DT)
[..]

which is misleading, as the bad compat syscall has nothing to do with
pointer authentication.

Stop arm64_show_signal() from printing exception syndrome information by
having compat_arm_syscall() set the ESR_ELx value to 0, as it has no
meaning for an invalid system call number. The example above now becomes:

[   19.935275] syscall[301]: unhandled exception: Oops - bad compat syscall(2) in syscall[10000+50000]
[   19.936124] CPU: 1 PID: 301 Comm: syscall Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-00005-g7e08006d4102 #80
[   19.936894] Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.0 (DT)
[..]

which although shows less information because the syscall number,
wrongfully advertised as the ESR value, is missing, it is better than
showing plainly wrong information. The syscall number can be easily
obtained with strace.

*A 32-bit value above or equal to 0x8000_0000 is interpreted as a negative
integer in compat_arm_syscal() and the condition scno &lt; __ARM_NR_COMPAT_END
evaluates to true; the syscall will exit to userspace in this case with the
ENOSYS error code instead of arm64_notify_die() being called.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220425114444.368693-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Silence clang warning on mismatched value/register sizes</title>
<updated>2019-10-28T09:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-28T09:08:34+00:00</published>
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Clang reports a warning on the __tlbi(aside1is, 0) macro expansion since
the value size does not match the register size specified in the inline
asm. Construct the ASID value using the __TLBI_VADDR() macro.

Fixes: 222fc0c8503d ("arm64: compat: Workaround Neoverse-N1 #1542419 for compat user-space")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Clang reports a warning on the __tlbi(aside1is, 0) macro expansion since
the value size does not match the register size specified in the inline
asm. Construct the ASID value using the __TLBI_VADDR() macro.

Fixes: 222fc0c8503d ("arm64: compat: Workaround Neoverse-N1 #1542419 for compat user-space")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: compat: Workaround Neoverse-N1 #1542419 for compat user-space</title>
<updated>2019-10-25T16:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-17T17:43:00+00:00</published>
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Compat user-space is unable to perform ICIMVAU instructions from
user-space. Instead it uses a compat-syscall. Add the workaround for
Neoverse-N1 #1542419 to this code path.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Compat user-space is unable to perform ICIMVAU instructions from
user-space. Instead it uses a compat-syscall. Add the workaround for
Neoverse-N1 #1542419 to this code path.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T05:44:50+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T19:28:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T19:28:39+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "I'm safely chained back up to my desk, so please pull these arm64
  fixes for -rc1 that address some issues that cropped up during the
  merge window:

   - Prevent KASLR from mapping the top page of the virtual address
     space

   - Fix device-tree probing of SDEI driver

   - Fix incorrect register offset definition in Hisilicon DDRC PMU
     driver

   - Fix compilation issue with older binutils not liking unsigned
     immediates

   - Fix uapi headers so that libc can provide its own sigcontext
     definition

   - Fix handling of private compat syscalls

   - Hook up compat io_pgetevents() syscall for 32-bit tasks

   - Cleanup to arm64 Makefile (including now to avoid silly conflicts)"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: compat: Hook up io_pgetevents() for 32-bit tasks
  arm64: compat: Don't pull syscall number from regs in arm_compat_syscall
  arm64: compat: Avoid sending SIGILL for unallocated syscall numbers
  arm64/sve: Disentangle &lt;uapi/asm/ptrace.h&gt; from &lt;uapi/asm/sigcontext.h&gt;
  arm64/sve: ptrace: Fix SVE_PT_REGS_OFFSET definition
  drivers/perf: hisi: Fixup one DDRC PMU register offset
  arm64: replace arm64-obj-* in Makefile with obj-*
  arm64: kaslr: Reserve size of ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN in linear region
  firmware: arm_sdei: Fix DT platform device creation
  firmware: arm_sdei: fix wrong of_node_put() in init function
  arm64: entry: remove unused register aliases
  arm64: smp: Fix compilation error
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "I'm safely chained back up to my desk, so please pull these arm64
  fixes for -rc1 that address some issues that cropped up during the
  merge window:

   - Prevent KASLR from mapping the top page of the virtual address
     space

   - Fix device-tree probing of SDEI driver

   - Fix incorrect register offset definition in Hisilicon DDRC PMU
     driver

   - Fix compilation issue with older binutils not liking unsigned
     immediates

   - Fix uapi headers so that libc can provide its own sigcontext
     definition

   - Fix handling of private compat syscalls

   - Hook up compat io_pgetevents() syscall for 32-bit tasks

   - Cleanup to arm64 Makefile (including now to avoid silly conflicts)"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: compat: Hook up io_pgetevents() for 32-bit tasks
  arm64: compat: Don't pull syscall number from regs in arm_compat_syscall
  arm64: compat: Avoid sending SIGILL for unallocated syscall numbers
  arm64/sve: Disentangle &lt;uapi/asm/ptrace.h&gt; from &lt;uapi/asm/sigcontext.h&gt;
  arm64/sve: ptrace: Fix SVE_PT_REGS_OFFSET definition
  drivers/perf: hisi: Fixup one DDRC PMU register offset
  arm64: replace arm64-obj-* in Makefile with obj-*
  arm64: kaslr: Reserve size of ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN in linear region
  firmware: arm_sdei: Fix DT platform device creation
  firmware: arm_sdei: fix wrong of_node_put() in init function
  arm64: entry: remove unused register aliases
  arm64: smp: Fix compilation error
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: compat: Don't pull syscall number from regs in arm_compat_syscall</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T14:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T18:00:39+00:00</published>
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The syscall number may have been changed by a tracer, so we should pass
the actual number in from the caller instead of pulling it from the
saved r7 value directly.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pi-Hsun Shih &lt;pihsun@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The syscall number may have been changed by a tracer, so we should pass
the actual number in from the caller instead of pulling it from the
saved r7 value directly.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pi-Hsun Shih &lt;pihsun@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: compat: Avoid sending SIGILL for unallocated syscall numbers</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T14:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T17:45:07+00:00</published>
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The ARM Linux kernel handles the EABI syscall numbers as follows:

  0           - NR_SYSCALLS-1	: Invoke syscall via syscall table
  NR_SYSCALLS - 0xeffff		: -ENOSYS (to be allocated in future)
  0xf0000     - 0xf07ff		: Private syscall or -ENOSYS if not allocated
  &gt; 0xf07ff			: SIGILL

Our compat code gets this wrong and ends up sending SIGILL in response
to all syscalls greater than NR_SYSCALLS which have a value greater
than 0x7ff in the bottom 16 bits.

Fix this by defining the end of the ARM private syscall region and
checking the syscall number against that directly. Update the comment
while we're at it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pi-Hsun Shih &lt;pihsun@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The ARM Linux kernel handles the EABI syscall numbers as follows:

  0           - NR_SYSCALLS-1	: Invoke syscall via syscall table
  NR_SYSCALLS - 0xeffff		: -ENOSYS (to be allocated in future)
  0xf0000     - 0xf07ff		: Private syscall or -ENOSYS if not allocated
  &gt; 0xf07ff			: SIGILL

Our compat code gets this wrong and ends up sending SIGILL in response
to all syscalls greater than NR_SYSCALLS which have a value greater
than 0x7ff in the bottom 16 bits.

Fix this by defining the end of the ARM private syscall region and
checking the syscall number against that directly. Update the comment
while we're at it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pi-Hsun Shih &lt;pihsun@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/arm64: Push siginfo generation into arm64_notify_die</title>
<updated>2018-09-27T19:52:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-21T15:24:40+00:00</published>
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Instead of generating a struct siginfo before calling arm64_notify_die
pass the signal number, tne sicode and the fault address into
arm64_notify_die and have it call force_sig_fault instead of
force_sig_info to let the generic code generate the struct siginfo.

This keeps code passing just the needed information into
siginfo generating code, making it easier to see what
is happening and harder to get wrong.  Further by letting
the generic code handle the generation of struct siginfo
it reduces the number of sites generating struct siginfo
making it possible to review them and verify that all
of the fiddly details for a structure passed to userspace
are handled properly.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Instead of generating a struct siginfo before calling arm64_notify_die
pass the signal number, tne sicode and the fault address into
arm64_notify_die and have it call force_sig_fault instead of
force_sig_info to let the generic code generate the struct siginfo.

This keeps code passing just the needed information into
siginfo generating code, making it easier to see what
is happening and harder to get wrong.  Further by letting
the generic code handle the generation of struct siginfo
it reduces the number of sites generating struct siginfo
making it possible to review them and verify that all
of the fiddly details for a structure passed to userspace
are handled properly.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Ensure every siginfo we send has all bits initialized</title>
<updated>2018-04-25T15:40:51+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-04-17T20:26:37+00:00</published>
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Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.

The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.

Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.

The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.

Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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