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Matt Turner 6bf4c0295c linux-user/sh4: preserve T/M/Q bits across signal delivery
QEMU keeps the SH4 T, M and Q status-register bits outside env->sr, in
the dedicated env->sr_t, env->sr_m and env->sr_q fields; cpu_read_sr()
folds them back into the architectural SR value and cpu_write_sr()
splits them back out.

setup_sigcontext() saved the bare env->sr (so the T/M/Q bits were always
zero in the signal frame) and restore_sigcontext() wrote the value
straight back into env->sr without updating sr_t/sr_m/sr_q. As a result
the T bit was never preserved across signal delivery: on sigreturn the
interrupted code resumed with whatever T value the signal handler last
left behind. Any conditional branch (or addc/subc/rotcl/div1, etc.)
immediately following the interrupted instruction could then take the
wrong path.

This is the cause of the long-standing intermittent failures of the
tests/tcg/multiarch/signals.c test on sh4, which was marked BROKEN. With
a SIGRTMIN timer firing every millisecond across many threads, the race
was hit a few percent of the time and corrupted the guest heap, surfacing
as a SIGSEGV in memset, a malloc assertion, or an rseq registration abort.

Traced on a deterministic rr recording: a cmp/hi set T=0, the timer
signal interrupted the very next instruction (a bf), the handler left
T=1, and the resumed bf took glibc calloc's MORECORE_CLEARS branch,
using the old top-chunk size as the clear length for a freshly split
small chunk and running memset off the end of the heap.

Fix setup_sigcontext()/restore_sigcontext() to use cpu_read_sr() and
cpu_write_sr() so the T, M and Q bits round-trip correctly, and drop the
BROKEN annotation on the sh4 signals test.

Fixes: c3b5bc8ab3 ("SH4: Signal handling for the user space emulator, by Magnus Damm.")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2026-05-29 23:40:53 +02:00
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