kernel/linux.git/arch/x86/um/os-Linux, branch v7.1

um: avoid struct sigcontext redefinition with musl

2026-03-21T09:41:44+00:00

mcontext.c includes both and . With musl libc, this causes a struct sigcontext redefinition error: pulls in musl's , which defines struct sigcontext directly. The kernel's then provides a second, conflicting definition of the same struct. With glibc this does not conflict because glibc's signal headers source their struct sigcontext from the kernel's own UAPI headers, so the include guard in makes the second inclusion a no-op. mcontext.c does not actually use struct sigcontext by name -- it only needs the FP-state types (_fpstate, _xstate, etc.) that are defined in independently of the sigcontext struct. Temporarily rename sigcontext to __kernel_sigcontext during the inclusion of so that the kernel's definition does not collide with musl's. The #undef restores normal name resolution immediately afterward. No functional change with glibc; fixes the build with musl. Signed-off-by: Marcel W. Wysocki Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260215142803.1455757-2-maci.stgn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: fix SECCOMP 32bit xstate register restore

2025-06-04T09:40:36+00:00

There was a typo that caused the extended FP state to be copied into the wrong location on 32 bit. On 32 bit we only store the xstate internally as that already contains everything. However, for compatibility, the mcontext on 32 bit first contains the legacy FP state and then the xstate. The code copied the xstate on top of the legacy FP state instead of using the correct offset. This offset was already calculated in the xstate_* variables, so simply switch to those to fix the problem. With this SECCOMP mode works on 32 bit, so lift the restriction. Fixes: b1e1bd2e6943 ("um: Add helper functions to get/set state for SECCOMP") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604081705.934112-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: Add helper functions to get/set state for SECCOMP

2025-06-02T13:17:19+00:00

When not using ptrace, we need to both save and restore registers through the mcontext as provided by the host kernel to our signal handlers. Add corresponding functions to store the state to an mcontext and helpers to access the mcontext of the subprocess through the stub data. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250602130052.545733-4-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: Store full CSGSFS and SS register from mcontext

2025-03-18T10:10:41+00:00

Doing this allows using registers as retrieved from an mcontext to be pushed to a process using PTRACE_SETREGS. It is not entirely clear to me why CSGSFS was masked. Doing so creates issues when using the mcontext as process state in seccomp and simply copying the register appears to work perfectly fine for ptrace. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250224181827.647129-2-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: mark rodata read-only and implement _nofault accesses

2025-03-18T10:03:14+00:00

Mark read-only data actually read-only (simple mprotect), and to be able to test it also implement _nofault accesses. This works by setting up a new "segv_continue" pointer in current, and then when we hit a segfault we change the signal return context so that we continue at that address. The code using this sets it up so that it jumps to a label and then aborts the access that way, returning -EFAULT. It's possible to optimize the ___backtrack_faulted() thing by using asm goto (compiler version dependent) and/or gcc's (not sure if clang has it) &&label extension, but at least in one attempt I made the && caused the compiler to not load -EFAULT into the register in case of jumping to the &&label from the fault handler. So leave it like this for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250210160926.420133-2-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: add back support for FXSAVE registers

2025-02-12T22:40:10+00:00

It was reported that qemu may not enable the XSTATE CPU extension, which is a requirement after commit 3f17fed21491 ("um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE"). Add a fallback to use FXSAVE (FP registers on x86_64 and XFP on i386) which is just a shorter version of the same data. The only difference is that the XSTATE magic should not be set in the signal frame. Note that this still drops support for the older i386 FP register layout as supporting this would require more backward compatibility to build a correct signal frame. Fixes: 3f17fed21491 ("um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE") Reported-by: SeongJae Park Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203070218.240797-1-sj@kernel.org Tested-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241204074827.1582917-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE

2024-10-23T10:13:16+00:00

The PTRACE_GETREGSET API has now existed since Linux 2.6.33. The XSAVE CPU feature should also be sufficiently common to be able to rely on it. With this, define our internal FP state to be the hosts XSAVE data. Add discovery for the hosts XSAVE size and place the FP registers at the end of task_struct so that we can adjust the size at runtime. Next we can implement the regset API on top and update the signal handling as well as ptrace APIs to use them. Also switch coredump creation to use the regset API and finally set HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK. This considerably improves the signal frames. Previously they might not have contained all the registers (i386) and also did not have the sizes and magic values set to the correct values to permit userspace to decode the frame. As a side effect, this will permit UML to run on hosts with newer CPU extensions (such as AMX) that need even more register state. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241023094120.4083426-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: Discover host_task_size from envp

2024-10-10T11:37:22+00:00

When loading the UML binary, the host kernel will place the stack at the highest possible address. It will then map the program name and environment variables onto the start of the stack. As such, an easy way to figure out the host_task_size is to use the highest pointer to an environment variable as a reference. Ensure that this works by disabling address layout randomization and re-executing UML in case it was enabled. This increases the available TASK_SIZE for 64 bit UML considerably. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240919124511.282088-9-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: always use the internal copy of the FP registers

2024-10-10T10:03:55+00:00

When switching from userspace to the kernel, all registers including the FP registers are copied into the kernel and restored later on. As such, the true source for the FP register state is actually already in the kernel and they should never be grabbed from the userspace process. Change the various places to simply copy the data from the internal FP register storage area. Note that on i386 the format of PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_GETFPXREGS is different enough that conversion would be needed. With this patch, -EINVAL is returned if the non-native format is requested. The upside is, that this patchset fixes setting registers via ptrace (which simply did not work before) as well as fixing setting floating point registers using the mcontext on signal return on i386. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240913133845.964292-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: Add missing headers

2024-04-22T19:46:20+00:00

This will address below -Wmissing-prototypes warnings: arch/um/kernel/mem.c:202:8: warning: no previous prototype for ‘pgd_alloc’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/mem.c:215:7: warning: no previous prototype for ‘uml_kmalloc’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/process.c:207:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_cpu_idle’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/process.c:328:15: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_align_stack’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/reboot.c:45:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘machine_restart’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/reboot.c:51:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘machine_power_off’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/reboot.c:57:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘machine_halt’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c:17:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘init_new_context’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c:60:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘destroy_context’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:36:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘start_uml’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/time.c:807:15: warning: no previous prototype for ‘calibrate_delay_is_known’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/um/kernel/tlb.c:594:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘force_flush_all’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/bugs_32.c:22:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_check_bugs’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/bugs_32.c:44:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_examine_signal’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/bugs_64.c:9:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_check_bugs’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/bugs_64.c:13:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_examine_signal’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/elfcore.c:10:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘elf_core_extra_phdrs’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/elfcore.c:15:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘elf_core_write_extra_phdrs’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/elfcore.c:42:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘elf_core_write_extra_data’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/elfcore.c:63:8: warning: no previous prototype for ‘elf_core_extra_data_size’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/fault.c:18:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘arch_fixup’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/os-Linux/mcontext.c:7:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘get_regs_from_mc’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] arch/x86/um/os-Linux/tls.c:22:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘check_host_supports_tls’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger