possible issue of sigcontext alignment on user stack
"Toru Nishimura" <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Nov 2002 21:15:44 +0900
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips |
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| Message-ID | <001c01c287e9$bb082c80$0d00a8c0@paq5> |
Hi, guys.
I think there is a possible structure alignment issue around
sigcontext store built on user stack
In sendsig()::sig_machdep.c, the pointer value "struct
sigcontext *scp" made from cast is wind up "scp--" to
have sigcontext structure storage. Then, structure alignment
would matter in the case of 64bit register_t.
scp--;
I guess the above should be like as;
scp = (struct sigcontext *)(((unsigned long)(scp - 1)) &~ ALIGNBYTES);
Your thoughts? Donno what the most sane cast should be for LP64 case.
Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology