Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Fix unparseable signal frame with CONFIG_IWMMXT

Russell King - ARM Linux <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha,gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:14:13PM +0000, Edmund Grimley-Evans wrote:
> As a user (I recently implemented a work-around for this problem in DynamoRIO: https://github.com/DynamoRIO/dynamorio/commit/0b75c635033d01ab04f955f5affe14a3ced9ab56) I'm happy with any of the proposed solutions, provided that in the "invalid magic number" case user space is not required to regenerate the bogus block with the same invalid magic number when invoking sigreturn.

I have to ask why a bug report was never sent to kernel people on this.
If no one tells people that software is buggy, that software stands
little chance of being fixed!

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