[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/tm: P9 disable transactionally suspended sigcontexts

Gustavo Romero gromero at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Oct 6 22:16:02 AEDT 2017


Hi Cyril,

On 06-10-2017 04:46, Cyril Bur wrote:
> From: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> 
> Unfortunately userspace can construct a sigcontext which enables
> suspend. Thus userspace can force Linux into a path where trechkpt is
> executed.
> 
> This patch blocks this from happening on POWER9 but sanity checking
> sigcontexts passed in.

I think "but" should say "by" as pointed out by Joel and acked by Mikey
previously.

Regards,
Gustavo



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