Patch "Revert x86 sigcontext cleanups" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ struct sigcontext {
 	unsigned long ip;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned short cs;
-	unsigned short __pad2;	/* Was called gs, but was always zero. */
-	unsigned short __pad1;	/* Was called fs, but was always zero. */
-	unsigned short ss;
+	unsigned short gs;
+	unsigned short fs;
+	unsigned short __pad0;
 	unsigned long err;
 	unsigned long trapno;
 	unsigned long oldmask;

@@ -177,24 +177,9 @@ struct sigcontext {
 	__u64 rip;
 	__u64 eflags;		/* RFLAGS */
 	__u16 cs;
-
-	/*
-	 * Prior to 2.5.64 ("[PATCH] x86-64 updates for 2.5.64-bk3"),
-	 * Linux saved and restored fs and gs in these slots.  This
-	 * was counterproductive, as fsbase and gsbase were never
-	 * saved, so arch_prctl was presumably unreliable.
-	 *
-	 * If these slots are ever needed for any other purpose, there
-	 * is some risk that very old 64-bit binaries could get
-	 * confused.  I doubt that many such binaries still work,
-	 * though, since the same patch in 2.5.64 also removed the
-	 * 64-bit set_thread_area syscall, so it appears that there is
-	 * no TLS API that works in both pre- and post-2.5.64 kernels.
-	 */
-	__u16 __pad2;		/* Was gs. */
-	__u16 __pad1;		/* Was fs. */
-
-	__u16 ss;
+	__u16 gs;
+	__u16 fs;
+	__u16 __pad0;
 	__u64 err;
 	__u64 trapno;
 	__u64 oldmask;

@@ -93,8 +93,15 @@ int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *r
 		COPY(r15);
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 		COPY_SEG_CPL3(cs);
 		COPY_SEG_CPL3(ss);
+#else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
+		/* Kernel saves and restores only the CS segment register on signals,
+		 * which is the bare minimum needed to allow mixed 32/64-bit code.
+		 * App's signal handler can save/restore other segments if needed. */
+		COPY_SEG_CPL3(cs);
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 
 		get_user_ex(tmpflags, &sc->flags);
 		regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~FIX_EFLAGS) | (tmpflags & FIX_EFLAGS);

@@ -154,9 +161,8 @@ int setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext _
 #else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
 		put_user_ex(regs->flags, &sc->flags);
 		put_user_ex(regs->cs, &sc->cs);
-		put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad2);
-		put_user_ex(0, &sc->__pad1);
-		put_user_ex(regs->ss, &sc->ss);
+		put_user_ex(0, &sc->gs);
+		put_user_ex(0, &sc->fs);
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 
 		put_user_ex(fpstate, &sc->fpstate);

@@ -450,19 +456,9 @@ static int __setup_rt_frame(int sig, str
 
 	regs->sp = (unsigned long)frame;
 
-	/*
-	 * Set up the CS and SS registers to run signal handlers in
-	 * 64-bit mode, even if the handler happens to be interrupting
-	 * 32-bit or 16-bit code.
-	 *
-	 * SS is subtle.  In 64-bit mode, we don't need any particular
-	 * SS descriptor, but we do need SS to be valid.  It's possible
-	 * that the old SS is entirely bogus -- this can happen if the
-	 * signal we're trying to deliver is #GP or #SS caused by a bad
-	 * SS value.
-	 */
+	/* Set up the CS register to run signal handlers in 64-bit mode,
+	   even if the handler happens to be interrupting 32-bit code. */
 	regs->cs = __USER_CS;
-	regs->ss = __USER_DS;
 
 	return 0;
 }