[PATCH] i386: fix stack alignment for signal handlers

This fixes the setup of the alignment of the signal frame, so that all
signal handlers are run with a properly aligned stack frame.

The current code "over-aligns" the stack pointer so that the stack frame
is effectively always mis-aligned by 4 bytes.  But what we really want
is that on function entry ((sp + 4) & 15) == 0, which matches what would
happen if the stack were aligned before a "call" instruction.

Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
index 61eb0c8a6e47..adcd069db91e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
@@ -338,7 +338,11 @@ get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs * regs, size_t frame_size)
                 esp = (unsigned long) ka->sa.sa_restorer;
         }
 
-        return (void __user *)((esp - frame_size) & -8ul);
+        esp -= frame_size;
+        /* Align the stack pointer according to the i386 ABI,
+         * i.e. so that on function entry ((sp + 4) & 15) == 0. */
+        esp = ((esp + 4) & -16ul) - 4;
+        return (void __user *) esp;
 }
 
 /* These symbols are defined with the addresses in the vsyscall page.