arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly

The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.

However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space.  Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.

Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn.  We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code.  We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/signal.c b/arch/tile/kernel/signal.c
index 757407e..1260321 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/signal.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigaltstack, const stack_t __user *, uss,
  */
 
 int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs,
-		       struct sigcontext __user *sc, long *pr0)
+		       struct sigcontext __user *sc)
 {
 	int err = 0;
 	int i;
@@ -75,17 +75,15 @@ int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 	regs->faultnum = INT_SWINT_1_SIGRETURN;
 
-	err |= __get_user(*pr0, &sc->gregs[0]);
 	return err;
 }
 
-/* sigreturn() returns long since it restores r0 in the interrupted code. */
+/* The assembly shim for this function arranges to ignore the return value. */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rt_sigreturn, struct pt_regs *, regs)
 {
 	struct rt_sigframe __user *frame =
 		(struct rt_sigframe __user *)(regs->sp);
 	sigset_t set;
-	long r0;
 
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
 		goto badframe;
@@ -98,13 +96,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rt_sigreturn, struct pt_regs *, regs)
 	recalc_sigpending();
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
-	if (restore_sigcontext(regs, &frame->uc.uc_mcontext, &r0))
+	if (restore_sigcontext(regs, &frame->uc.uc_mcontext))
 		goto badframe;
 
 	if (do_sigaltstack(&frame->uc.uc_stack, NULL, regs->sp) == -EFAULT)
 		goto badframe;
 
-	return r0;
+	return 0;
 
 badframe:
 	force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);