Commit e7cc4173 authored by Palmer Dabbelt's avatar Palmer Dabbelt Committed by Ingo Molnar

signals, ptrace, sched: Fix a misaligned load inside ptrace_attach()

The misaligned load exception arises when running ptrace_attach() on
the RISC-V (which hasn't been upstreamed yet).  The problem is that
wait_on_bit() takes a void* but then proceeds to call test_bit(),
which takes a long*.  This allows an int-aligned pointer to be passed
to test_bit(), which promptly fails.  This will manifest on any other
asm-generic port where unaligned loads trap, where sizeof(long) >
sizeof(int), and where task_struct.jobctl ends up not being
long-aligned.

This patch changes task_struct.jobctl to be a long, which ensures it
has the correct alignment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430453997-32459-2-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 7e605987
......@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ struct task_struct {
int exit_state;
int exit_code, exit_signal;
int pdeath_signal; /* The signal sent when the parent dies */
unsigned int jobctl; /* JOBCTL_*, siglock protected */
unsigned long jobctl; /* JOBCTL_*, siglock protected */
/* Used for emulating ABI behavior of previous Linux versions */
unsigned int personality;
......
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