The kernel and libc have different ideas about what a sigset_t
is -- for the kernel it is only _NSIG / 8 bytes in size (usually
8 bytes), but for libc it is much larger, 128 bytes. In most
situations the difference doesn't matter, because if you pass a
pointer to a libc sigset_t to the kernel it just acts on the first
8 bytes of it, but for the ucontext_t* argument to a signal handler
it trips us up. The kernel allocates this ucontext_t on the stack
according to its idea of the sigset_t type, but the type of the
ucontext_t defined by the libc headers uses the libc type, and
so do the manipulator functions like sigfillset(). This means that
(1) sizeof(uc->uc_sigmask) is much larger than the actual
space used on the stack
(2) sigfillset(&uc->uc_sigmask) will write garbage 0xff bytes
off the end of the structure, which can trash data that
was on the stack before the signal handler was invoked,
and may result in a crash after the handler returns
To avoid this, we use a memset() of the correct size to fill
the signal mask rather than using the libc function.
This fixes a problem where we would crash at least some of the
time on an i386 host when a signal was taken.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
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