Re: sparc/ppc/arm compat siginfo ABI regressions: sending SIGFPE via kill() returns wrong values in si_pid and si_uid

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 21:45:11 EST


On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> There is a clear pattern of sneaking in ABI changes using innocently
> looking commit messages.

Yes, this siginfo stuff has been a mess.

Eric - this needs to stop. Or we need to revert all that garbage entirely.

Send a fix. And stop changing the siginfo layout or field values.

Linus