[PATCH v2 1/4] copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)

[David Hildenbrand]

On 01.09.25 15:09, Simon Schuster via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon at siemens-energy.com>
> 
> With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
> clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
> increased from 32-bit to 64-bit. However, the signature of the copy_*
> helper functions (e.g., copy_sighand) used by copy_process was not
> adapted.
> 
> As such, they truncate the flags on any 32-bit architectures that
> supports clone3 (arc, arm, csky, m68k, microblaze, mips32, openrisc,
> parisc32, powerpc32, riscv32, x86-32 and xtensa).
> 
> For copy_sighand with CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND being an actual u64
> constant, this triggers an observable bug in kernel selftest
> clone3_clear_sighand:
> 
>          if (clone_flags & CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND)
> 
> in function copy_sighand within fork.c will always fail given:
> 
>          unsigned long /* == uint32_t */ clone_flags
>          #define CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND 0x100000000ULL
> 
> This commit fixes the bug by always passing clone_flags to copy_sighand
> via their declared u64 type, invariant of architecture-dependent integer
> sizes.
> 
> Fixes: b612e5df4587 ("clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # linux-5.5+
> Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon at siemens-energy.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
> ---

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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>

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David / dhildenb