[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add a test of sigreturn vs VDSO

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Mar 26 23:06:35 AEDT 2020


On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 11:04:02 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> There's two different paths through the sigreturn code, depending on
> whether the VDSO is mapped or not. We recently discovered a bug in the
> unmapped case, because it's not commonly used these days.
> 
> So add a test that sends itself a signal, then moves the VDSO, takes
> another signal and finally unmaps the VDSO before sending itself
> another signal. That tests the standard signal path, the code that
> handles the VDSO being moved, and also the signal path in the case
> where the VDSO is unmapped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a0968a025c04702427a4aee2c618f451a5098cd8

cheers


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