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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog15
-rw-r--r--signal/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--signal/tst-minsigstksz-1.c131
-rw-r--r--signal/tst-minsigstksz-2.c66
-rw-r--r--signal/tst-minsigstksz-3.c64
-rw-r--r--signal/tst-minsigstksz-3a.c69
-rw-r--r--signal/tst-minsigstksz-4.c65
-rw-r--r--support/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--support/tst-xsigstack.c64
-rw-r--r--support/xsignal.h17
-rw-r--r--support/xsigstack.c107
11 files changed, 602 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36bb3ed885..7cc7916a17 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+2019-01-16 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
+
+ * support/xsignal.h (xalloc_sigstack, xfree_sigstack)
+ (xget_sigstack_location): New test support functions.
+ * support/xsigstack.c: New file, implementing them.
+ * support/tst-xsigstack.c: New test for them.
+ * support/Makefile: Update.
+
+ * signal/tst-minsigstksz-1.c
+ * signal/tst-minsigstksz-2.c
+ * signal/tst-minsigstksz-3.c
+ * signal/tst-minsigstksz-3a.c
+ * signal/tst-minsigstksz-4.c: New tests.
+ * signal/Makefile: Run them.
+
2019-01-16 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
* po/libc.pot: Regenerate.
diff --git a/signal/Makefile b/signal/Makefile
index 647ce242e6..9597287bca 100644
--- a/signal/Makefile
+++ b/signal/Makefile
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ routines := signal raise killpg \
tests := tst-signal tst-sigset tst-sigsimple tst-raise tst-sigset2 \
tst-sigwait-eintr tst-sigaction \
+ tst-minsigstksz-1 tst-minsigstksz-2 tst-minsigstksz-3 \
+ tst-minsigstksz-3a tst-minsigstksz-4 \
include ../Rules
diff --git a/signal/tst-minsigstksz-1.c b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-1.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00344d5fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-1.c
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/* Tests of signal delivery on an alternate stack (nonlethal).
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+
+/* C2011 7.4.1.1p5 specifies that only the following operations are
+ guaranteed to be well-defined inside an asynchronous signal handler:
+ * any operation on a lock-free atomic object
+ * assigning a value to an object declared as volatile sig_atomic_t
+ * calling abort, _Exit, quick_exit, or signal
+ * signal may only be called with its first argument equal to the
+ number of the signal that caused the handler to be called
+
+ We use this list as a guideline for the set of operations that ought
+ also to be safe in a _synchronous_ signal delivered on an alternate
+ signal stack with only MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space.
+
+ This test program tests all of the above operations that do not,
+ one way or another, cause the program to be terminated. */
+
+/* We do not try to test atomic operations exhaustively, only a simple
+ atomic counter increment. This is only safe if atomic_[u]int is
+ unconditionally lock-free. */
+#ifdef __STDC_NO_ATOMICS__
+# define TEST_ATOMIC_OPS 0
+#else
+# include <stdatomic.h>
+# if ATOMIC_INT_LOCK_FREE != 2
+# define TEST_ATOMIC_OPS 0
+# else
+# define TEST_ATOMIC_OPS 1
+# endif
+#endif
+
+static volatile sig_atomic_t signal_flag = 0;
+static volatile sig_atomic_t signal_err = 0;
+static void
+handler_set_flag (int unused)
+{
+ signal_flag = 1;
+}
+
+static void
+handler_set_flag_once (int sig)
+{
+ signal_flag = 1;
+ if (signal (sig, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR)
+ /* It is not safe to call FAIL_EXIT1 here. Set another flag instead. */
+ signal_err = 1;
+}
+
+#if TEST_ATOMIC_OPS
+static atomic_uint signal_count = 0;
+static void
+handler_count_up_1 (int unused)
+{
+ atomic_fetch_add (&signal_count, 1);
+}
+#endif
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ /* Test 1: setting a volatile sig_atomic_t flag. */
+ sa.sa_handler = handler_set_flag;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler_set_flag): %m\n");
+
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_flag == 0);
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_flag == 1);
+ signal_flag = 0;
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_flag == 1);
+ signal_flag = 0;
+
+ /* Test 1: setting a volatile sig_atomic_t flag and then ignoring
+ further delivery of the signal. */
+ sa.sa_handler = handler_set_flag_once;
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler_set_flag_once): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_flag == 1);
+ /* Note: if signal_err is 1, a system call failed, but we can't
+ report the error code because errno is indeterminate. */
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_err == 0);
+
+ signal_flag = 0;
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_flag == 0);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (signal_err == 0);
+
+#if TEST_ATOMIC_OPS
+ sa.sa_handler = handler_count_up_1;
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler_count_up_1): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (atomic_load (&signal_count) == 1);
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (atomic_load (&signal_count) == 2);
+#endif
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/signal/tst-minsigstksz-2.c b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-2.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3368dde6b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-2.c
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/* Tests of signal delivery on an alternate stack (abort).
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/* C2011 7.4.1.1p5 specifies that only the following operations are
+ guaranteed to be well-defined inside an asynchronous signal handler:
+ * any operation on a lock-free atomic object
+ * assigning a value to an object declared as volatile sig_atomic_t
+ * calling abort, _Exit, quick_exit, or signal
+ * signal may only be called with its first argument equal to the
+ number of the signal that caused the handler to be called
+
+ We use this list as a guideline for the set of operations that ought
+ also to be safe in a _synchronous_ signal delivered on an alternate
+ signal stack with only MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space.
+
+ This test program tests calls to abort. Note that it does _not_
+ install a handler for SIGABRT, because that signal would also be
+ delivered on the alternate stack and MINSIGSTKSZ does not provide
+ enough space for delivery of nested signals. */
+
+static void
+handler (int unused)
+{
+ abort ();
+}
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ sa.sa_handler = handler;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_RET ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ FAIL_RET ("test process was not terminated by abort in signal handler");
+}
+
+#define EXPECTED_SIGNAL SIGABRT
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3.c b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8d9a6369c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3.c
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* Tests of signal delivery on an alternate stack (_Exit).
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/* C2011 7.4.1.1p5 specifies that only the following operations are
+ guaranteed to be well-defined inside an asynchronous signal handler:
+ * any operation on a lock-free atomic object
+ * assigning a value to an object declared as volatile sig_atomic_t
+ * calling abort, _Exit, quick_exit, or signal
+ * signal may only be called with its first argument equal to the
+ number of the signal that caused the handler to be called
+
+ We use this list as a guideline for the set of operations that ought
+ also to be safe in a _synchronous_ signal delivered on an alternate
+ signal stack with only MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space.
+
+ This test program tests calls to _Exit. */
+
+#define EXPECTED_STATUS 3
+
+static void
+handler (int unused)
+{
+ _Exit (EXPECTED_STATUS);
+}
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ sa.sa_handler = handler;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_RET ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ FAIL_RET ("test process was not terminated by _Exit in signal handler");
+}
+
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3a.c b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3a.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b58b8d01ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-3a.c
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/* Tests of signal delivery on an alternate stack (_exit).
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/* C2011 7.4.1.1p5 specifies that only the following operations are
+ guaranteed to be well-defined inside an asynchronous signal handler:
+ * any operation on a lock-free atomic object
+ * assigning a value to an object declared as volatile sig_atomic_t
+ * calling abort, _Exit, quick_exit, or signal
+ * signal may only be called with its first argument equal to the
+ number of the signal that caused the handler to be called
+
+ We use this list as a guideline for the set of operations that ought
+ also to be safe in a _synchronous_ signal delivered on an alternate
+ signal stack with only MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space.
+
+ This test program tests calls to _exit, which is the same function
+ as _Exit, but specified by POSIX rather than ISO C. For reasons
+ unknown to the author of this program, the C committee did not
+ think it could standardize _exit under that name; regardless, in a
+ POSIX-conformant environment, they should be completely
+ interchangeable. */
+
+#define EXPECTED_STATUS 3
+
+static void
+handler (int unused)
+{
+ _exit (EXPECTED_STATUS);
+}
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ sa.sa_handler = handler;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_RET ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ FAIL_RET ("test process was not terminated by _exit in signal handler");
+}
+
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/signal/tst-minsigstksz-4.c b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-4.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0dc63b4dd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/signal/tst-minsigstksz-4.c
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/* Tests of signal delivery on an alternate stack (quick_exit).
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/* C2011 7.4.1.1p5 specifies that only the following operations are
+ guaranteed to be well-defined inside an asynchronous signal handler:
+ * any operation on a lock-free atomic object
+ * assigning a value to an object declared as volatile sig_atomic_t
+ * calling abort, _Exit, quick_exit, or signal
+ * signal may only be called with its first argument equal to the
+ number of the signal that caused the handler to be called
+
+ We use this list as a guideline for the set of operations that ought
+ also to be safe in a _synchronous_ signal delivered on an alternate
+ signal stack with only MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space.
+
+ This test program tests calls to quick_exit. Note that this is only
+ safe when there are no at_quick_exit callbacks. */
+
+#define EXPECTED_STATUS 3
+
+static void
+handler (int unused)
+{
+ quick_exit (EXPECTED_STATUS);
+}
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ sa.sa_handler = handler;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_RET ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ FAIL_RET ("test process was not terminated by quick_exit in signal handler");
+}
+
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/support/Makefile b/support/Makefile
index 6ac4447def..432cf2fe6c 100644
--- a/support/Makefile
+++ b/support/Makefile
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ libsupport-routines = \
xsetsockopt \
xsigaction \
xsignal \
+ xsigstack \
xsocket \
xstrdup \
xstrndup \
@@ -205,6 +206,7 @@ tests = \
tst-test_compare_blob \
tst-test_compare_string \
tst-xreadlink \
+ tst-xsigstack \
ifeq ($(run-built-tests),yes)
tests-special = \
diff --git a/support/tst-xsigstack.c b/support/tst-xsigstack.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42859c79e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/tst-xsigstack.c
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* Test of sigaltstack wrappers.
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/xunistd.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+static volatile uintptr_t handler_stackaddr;
+
+static void
+handler (int unused)
+{
+ int var;
+ handler_stackaddr = (uintptr_t) &var;
+}
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+ void *sstk = xalloc_sigstack (0);
+
+ unsigned char *sp;
+ size_t size;
+ xget_sigstack_location (sstk, &sp, &size);
+ printf ("signal stack installed: sp=%p size=%zu\n", sp, size);
+
+ struct sigaction sa;
+ sa.sa_handler = handler;
+ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_ONSTACK;
+ sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
+ if (sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, 0))
+ FAIL_RET ("sigaction (SIGUSR1, handler): %m\n");
+
+ raise (SIGUSR1);
+
+ uintptr_t haddr = handler_stackaddr;
+ printf ("address of handler local variable: %p\n", (void *)haddr);
+ TEST_VERIFY ((uintptr_t)sp < haddr);
+ TEST_VERIFY (haddr < (uintptr_t)sp + size);
+
+ xfree_sigstack (sstk);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/support/xsignal.h b/support/xsignal.h
index f3308883a4..d89e2bc575 100644
--- a/support/xsignal.h
+++ b/support/xsignal.h
@@ -37,6 +37,23 @@ void xsigaction (int sig, const struct sigaction *newact,
void xpthread_sigmask (int how, const sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset);
+/* Allocate and activate an alternate signal stack. This stack will
+ have SIZE + MINSIGSTKSZ bytes of space, rounded up to a whole
+ number of pages. There will be large (at least 1 MiB) inaccessible
+ guard bands on either side of it. The return value is a cookie
+ that can be passed to xfree_sigstack to deactivate and deallocate
+ the stack again. It is not necessary to call sigaltstack after
+ calling this function. Terminates the process on error. */
+void *xalloc_sigstack (size_t size);
+
+/* Deactivate and deallocate a signal stack created by xalloc_sigstack. */
+void xfree_sigstack (void *stack);
+
+/* Extract the actual address and size of the alternate signal stack from
+ the cookie returned by xalloc_sigstack. */
+void xget_sigstack_location (const void *stack, unsigned char **addrp,
+ size_t *sizep);
+
__END_DECLS
#endif /* SUPPORT_SIGNAL_H */
diff --git a/support/xsigstack.c b/support/xsigstack.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cebfa19aa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/xsigstack.c
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/* sigaltstack wrappers.
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/xsignal.h>
+#include <support/support.h>
+#include <support/xunistd.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/param.h> /* roundup, MAX */
+
+/* The "cookie" returned by xalloc_sigstack points to one of these
+ structures. */
+struct sigstack_desc
+{
+ void *alloc_base; /* Base address of the complete allocation. */
+ size_t alloc_size; /* Size of the complete allocation. */
+ stack_t alt_stack; /* The address and size of the stack itself. */
+ stack_t old_stack; /* The previous signal stack. */
+};
+
+void *
+xalloc_sigstack (size_t size)
+{
+ size_t pagesize = sysconf (_SC_PAGESIZE);
+ if (pagesize == -1)
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sysconf (_SC_PAGESIZE): %m\n");
+
+ /* Always supply at least MINSIGSTKSZ space; passing 0 as size means
+ only that much space. No matter what the number is, round it up
+ to a whole number of pages. */
+ size_t stacksize = roundup (size + MINSIGSTKSZ, pagesize);
+
+ /* The guard bands need to be large enough to intercept offset
+ accesses from a stack address that might otherwise hit another
+ mapping. Make them at least twice as big as the stack itself, to
+ defend against an offset by the entire size of a large
+ stack-allocated array. The minimum is 1MiB, which is arbitrarily
+ chosen to be larger than any "typical" wild pointer offset.
+ Again, no matter what the number is, round it up to a whole
+ number of pages. */
+ size_t guardsize = roundup (MAX (2 * stacksize, 1024 * 1024), pagesize);
+
+ struct sigstack_desc *desc = xmalloc (sizeof (struct sigstack_desc));
+ desc->alloc_size = guardsize + stacksize + guardsize;
+ /* Use MAP_NORESERVE so that RAM will not be wasted on the guard
+ bands; touch all the pages of the actual stack before returning,
+ so we know they are allocated. */
+ desc->alloc_base = xmmap (0,
+ desc->alloc_size,
+ PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE|MAP_STACK,
+ -1);
+
+ xmprotect (desc->alloc_base, guardsize, PROT_NONE);
+ xmprotect (desc->alloc_base + guardsize + stacksize, guardsize, PROT_NONE);
+ memset (desc->alloc_base + guardsize, 0xA5, stacksize);
+
+ desc->alt_stack.ss_sp = desc->alloc_base + guardsize;
+ desc->alt_stack.ss_flags = 0;
+ desc->alt_stack.ss_size = stacksize;
+
+ if (sigaltstack (&desc->alt_stack, &desc->old_stack))
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sigaltstack (new stack: sp=%p, size=%zu, flags=%u): %m\n",
+ desc->alt_stack.ss_sp, desc->alt_stack.ss_size,
+ desc->alt_stack.ss_flags);
+
+ return desc;
+}
+
+void
+xfree_sigstack (void *stack)
+{
+ struct sigstack_desc *desc = stack;
+
+ if (sigaltstack (&desc->old_stack, 0))
+ FAIL_EXIT1 ("sigaltstack (restore old stack: sp=%p, size=%zu, flags=%u): "
+ "%m\n", desc->old_stack.ss_sp, desc->old_stack.ss_size,
+ desc->old_stack.ss_flags);
+ xmunmap (desc->alloc_base, desc->alloc_size);
+ free (desc);
+}
+
+void
+xget_sigstack_location (const void *stack, unsigned char **addrp, size_t *sizep)
+{
+ const struct sigstack_desc *desc = stack;
+ *addrp = desc->alt_stack.ss_sp;
+ *sizep = desc->alt_stack.ss_size;
+}