[PATCH v3 2/2] x86_64,signal: Remove 'fs' and 'gs' from sigcontext

[Andy Lutomirski]

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As far as I can tell, these fields have been set to zero on save and
ignored on restore since Linux was imported into git.  Rename them
'__pad1' and '__pad2' to avoid confusion.  This may also allow
us to recycle them some day.

This also adds a comment clarifying the history of those fields.

I'm intentionally avoiding calling either of them __pad0: the field
formerly known as __pad0 is now ss.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h      |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c               |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
index f910cdcb71fd..6fe6b182c998 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ struct sigcontext {
 	unsigned long ip;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned short cs;
-	unsigned short gs;
-	unsigned short fs;
+	unsigned short __pad2;	/* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
+	unsigned short __pad1;	/* Was called fs, but was always zero. */
 	unsigned short ss;
 	unsigned long err;
 	unsigned long trapno;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
index 076b11fd6fa1..16dc4e8a2cd3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -177,8 +177,23 @@ struct sigcontext {
 	__u64 rip;
 	__u64 eflags;		/* RFLAGS */
 	__u16 cs;
-	__u16 gs;
-	__u16 fs;
+
+	/*
+	 * Prior to 2.5.64 ("[PATCH] x86-64 updates for 2.5.64-bk3"),
+	 * Linux saved and restored fs and gs in these slots.  This
+	 * was counterproductive, as fsbase and gsbase were never
+	 * saved, so arch_prctl was presumably unreliable.
+	 *
+	 * If these slots are ever needed for any other purpose, there
+	 * is some risk that very old 64-bit binaries could get
+	 * confused.  I doubt that many such binaries still work,
+	 * though, since the same patch in 2.5.64 also removed the
+	 * 64-bit set_thread_area syscall, so it appears that there is
+	 * no TLS API that works in both pre- and post-2.5.64 kernels.
+	 */
+	__u16 __pad2;		/* Was gs. */
+	__u16 __pad1;		/* Was fs. */
+
 	__u16 ss;
 	__u64 err;
 	__u64 trapno;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 9511eb7f17b0..691ab4ba5f12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ int setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, void __user *fpstate,
 #else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
 		put_user_ex(regs->flags, &sc->flags);
 		put_user_ex(regs->cs, &sc->cs);
-		put_user_ex(0, &sc->gs);
-		put_user_ex(0, &sc->fs);
+		put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad2);
+		put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad1);
 		put_user_ex(regs->ss, &sc->ss);
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 
-- 
2.3.0

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