[PATCH] sh: reload r3 after arg evaluation in INTERNAL_SYSCALL [BZ #34167]

Matt Turner mattst88@gmail.com
Sat May 23 20:18:27 GMT 2026


r3 is caller-saved. When a function call appears in the args list
(e.g. INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL(tgkill, __getpid(), tid, sig)),
SUBSTITUTE_ARGS evaluates __getpid() before r3 is reloaded, leaving
r3=20 (__NR_getpid) instead of __NR_tgkill=270. The trapa then
dispatches the wrong syscall and the signal is silently dropped.

Fix: declare r3 uninitialised, expand SUBSTITUTE_ARGS (all function
calls happen here), then assign the syscall number to r3 with no
intervening calls before the trapa. Applies to both INTERNAL_SYSCALL
and INTERNAL_SYSCALL_NCS.

signal/tst-raise is a regression test for this bug: raise() calls
tgkill(__getpid(), tid, sig), which triggers the clobber.
---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/sysdep.h | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/sysdep.h ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/sysdep.h
index d51988e5b0..1562213bf6 100644
--- ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/sysdep.h
+++ ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/sysdep.h
@@ -289,8 +289,9 @@
 #define INTERNAL_SYSCALL(name, nr, args...) \
   ({									      \
     unsigned long int resultvar;					      \
-    register long int r3 asm ("%r3") = SYS_ify (name);			      \
+    register long int r3 asm ("%r3");					      \
     SUBSTITUTE_ARGS_##nr(args);						      \
+    r3 = SYS_ify (name);						      \
 									      \
     asm volatile (SYSCALL_INST_STR##nr SYSCALL_INST_PAD			      \
 		  : "=z" (resultvar)					      \
@@ -303,8 +304,9 @@
 #define INTERNAL_SYSCALL_NCS(name, nr, args...) \
   ({									      \
     unsigned long int resultvar;					      \
-    register long int r3 asm ("%r3") = (name);				      \
+    register long int r3 asm ("%r3");					      \
     SUBSTITUTE_ARGS_##nr(args);						      \
+    r3 = (name);							      \
 									      \
     asm volatile (SYSCALL_INST_STR##nr SYSCALL_INST_PAD			      \
 		  : "=z" (resultvar)					      \
-- 
2.53.0



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