i386 glibc is buggy and calls the sigaction syscall incorrectly. This is asymptomatic for normal programs, but it blows up on programs that do evil things with segmentation. ldt_gdt an example of such an evil program.
This doesn't appear to be a regression -- I think I just got lucky with the uninitialized memory that glibc threw at the kernel when I wrote the test. This hackish fix manually issues sigaction(2) syscalls to undo the damage. Without the fix, ldt_gdt_32 segfaults; with the fix, it passes for me. See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21269 Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> --- tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c index f6121612e769..b9a22f18566a 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c @@ -409,6 +409,51 @@ static void *threadproc(void *ctx) } } +#ifdef __i386__ + +#ifndef SA_RESTORE +#define SA_RESTORER 0x04000000 +#endif + +/* + * The UAPI header calls this 'struct sigaction', which conflicts with + * glibc. Sigh. + */ +struct fake_ksigaction { + void *handler; /* the real type is nasty */ + unsigned long sa_flags; + void (*sa_restorer)(void); + unsigned char sigset[8]; +}; + +static void fix_sa_restorer(int sig) +{ + struct fake_ksigaction ksa; + + if (syscall(SYS_rt_sigaction, sig, NULL, &ksa, 8) == 0) { + /* + * glibc has a nasty bug: it sometimes writes garbage to + * sa_restorer. This interacts quite badly with anything + * that fiddles with SS because it can trigger legacy + * stack switching. Patch it up. See: + * + * https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21269 + */ + if (!(ksa.sa_flags & SA_RESTORER) && ksa.sa_restorer) { + ksa.sa_restorer = NULL; + if (syscall(SYS_rt_sigaction, sig, &ksa, NULL, + sizeof(ksa.sigset)) != 0) + err(1, "rt_sigaction"); + } + } +} +#else +static void fix_sa_restorer(int sig) +{ + /* 64-bit glibc works fine. */ +} +#endif + static void sethandler(int sig, void (*handler)(int, siginfo_t *, void *), int flags) { @@ -420,6 +465,7 @@ static void sethandler(int sig, void (*handler)(int, siginfo_t *, void *), if (sigaction(sig, &sa, 0)) err(1, "sigaction"); + fix_sa_restorer(sig); } static jmp_buf jmpbuf; -- 2.9.3
