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Re: [PATCH] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in compat siginfo

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On 04/04/2017 02:53 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 04/04/2017 09:15 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> Put the right values from the original siginfo into the
>>> userspace compat-siginfo.
>>>
>>> This fixes the 32-bit mpx tabletest on a 64-bit kernel.
>>
>> Ugh, thanks for finding that.
> 
> Yeah, I was also looking at the vaddrexhaust test, but is that supposed
> to work? It does pretty weird things at least, on 64 bit the function
> effectivly does nothing because nr_to_fill evaluates to 0 there, and on
> 32 bit it gets a (probably #BF) exception which is not caught, so that
> the test fails.
> 
> I am a bit confused, but maybe I just didn't stare long enough at it :-)
> Hope you can sched some light on it.

That code can probably just get removed from the tests.  I haven't run
it in a while and it's probably not worth refreshing.

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[PATCH] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in compat siginfo Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2017-04-04 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in compat  siginfo Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-04 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in compat  siginfo Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2017-04-05 00:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in compat  siginfo Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-06 00:50 +0200
  [tip:x86/urgent] x86/signals: Fix lower/upper bound reporting in  compat siginfo tip-bot for Joerg Roedel <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-04-05 11:10 +0200

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