Re: [PATCH v8 2/6] x86/signal: Introduce helpers to get the maximum signal frame size

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon May 03 2021 - 09:06:17 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 09:48:52PM -0700, Chang S. Bae wrote:
> +void __init init_sigframe_size(void)
> +{
> + max_frame_size = MAX_FRAME_SIGINFO_UCTXT_SIZE + MAX_FRAME_PADDING;
> +
> + max_frame_size += fpu__get_fpstate_size() + MAX_XSAVE_PADDING;
> +
> + /* Userspace expects an aligned size. */
> + max_frame_size = round_up(max_frame_size, FRAME_ALIGNMENT);

I guess we want

pr_info("max sigframe size: %lu\n", max_frame_size);

here so that we can keep an eye on how much this becomes, in practice.

Thx.

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