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[v8,06/12] kselftest: arm64: add helper get_current_context

Message ID 20191009082611.9441-7-cristian.marussi@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Add arm64/signal initial kselftest support | expand

Commit Message

Cristian Marussi Oct. 9, 2019, 8:26 a.m. UTC
Introduce a new common utility function get_current_context() which can be
used to grab a ucontext without the help of libc, and also to detect if
such ucontext has been successfully used by placing it on the stack as a
fake sigframe.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
---
v7 --> v8
- added new in v8 (splitted out from v7 05/11)
---
 .../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h     |  6 +-
 .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c         | 31 ++++++
 .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h         | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Dave Martin Oct. 9, 2019, 11:32 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:26:05AM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Introduce a new common utility function get_current_context() which can be
> used to grab a ucontext without the help of libc, and also to detect if
> such ucontext has been successfully used by placing it on the stack as a
> fake sigframe.

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
> ---
> v7 --> v8
> - added new in v8 (splitted out from v7 05/11)
> ---
>  .../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h     |  6 +-
>  .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c         | 31 ++++++
>  .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h         | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
> index 901521188202..4fd3ba01e3b1 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
> @@ -88,8 +88,12 @@ struct tdescr {
>  	/* optional sa_flags for the installed handler */
>  	int			sa_flags;
>  	ucontext_t		saved_uc;
> +	/* used by get_current_ctx() */
> +	size_t			live_sz;
> +	ucontext_t		*live_uc;
> +	volatile sig_atomic_t	live_uc_valid;
>  	/* optional test private data */
> -	void                    *priv;
> +	void			*priv;
>  
>  	/* a custom setup: called alternatively to default_setup */
>  	int (*setup)(struct tdescr *td);
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
> index e8bbe36c2660..222148568adf 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
> @@ -11,14 +11,19 @@
>  #include <linux/auxvec.h>
>  #include <ucontext.h>
>  
> +#include <asm/unistd.h>
> +
>  #include <kselftest.h>
>  
>  #include "test_signals.h"
>  #include "test_signals_utils.h"
>  #include "testcases/testcases.h"
>  
> +
>  extern struct tdescr *current;
>  
> +static int sig_copyctx = SIGTRAP;
> +
>  static char const *const feats_names[FMAX_END] = {
>  	" SSBS ",
>  	" PAN ",
> @@ -156,6 +161,20 @@ static bool handle_signal_ok(struct tdescr *td,
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> +static bool handle_signal_copyctx(struct tdescr *td,
> +				  siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
> +{
> +	/* Mangling PC to avoid loops on original BRK instr */
> +	((ucontext_t *)uc)->uc_mcontext.pc += 4;
> +	memcpy(td->live_uc, uc, td->live_sz);
> +	ASSERT_GOOD_CONTEXT(td->live_uc);
> +	td->live_uc_valid = 1;
> +	fprintf(stderr,
> +		"GOOD CONTEXT grabbed from sig_copyctx handler\n");
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
>  static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
>  {
>  	if (current->sig_unsupp && signum == current->sig_unsupp &&
> @@ -167,6 +186,9 @@ static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
>  	} else if (current->sig_ok && signum == current->sig_ok &&
>  		   handle_signal_ok(current, si, uc)) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_OK\n");
> +	} else if (signum == sig_copyctx && current->live_uc &&
> +		   handle_signal_copyctx(current, si, uc)) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_COPYCTX\n");
>  	} else {
>  		if (signum == SIGALRM && current->timeout) {
>  			fprintf(stderr, "-- Timeout !\n");
> @@ -221,6 +243,15 @@ static inline int default_trigger(struct tdescr *td)
>  
>  int test_init(struct tdescr *td)
>  {
> +	if (td->sig_trig == sig_copyctx) {
> +		fprintf(stdout,
> +			"Signal %d is RESERVED, cannot be used as a trigger. Aborting\n",
> +			sig_copyctx);
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	/* just in case */
> +	unblock_signal(sig_copyctx);
> +
>  	td->minsigstksz = getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ);
>  	if (!td->minsigstksz)
>  		td->minsigstksz = MINSIGSTKSZ;
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
> index 5e3a2b7aaa8b..fd67b1f23c41 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
> @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
>  #ifndef __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
>  #define __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
>  
> +#include <assert.h>
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +
>  #include "test_signals.h"
>  
>  int test_init(struct tdescr *td);
> @@ -17,4 +21,98 @@ static inline bool feats_ok(struct tdescr *td)
>  	return (td->feats_required & td->feats_supported) == td->feats_required;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Obtaining a valid and full-blown ucontext_t from userspace is tricky:
> + * libc getcontext does() not save all the regs and messes with some of
> + * them (pstate value in particular is not reliable).
> + *
> + * Here we use a service signal to grab the ucontext_t from inside a
> + * dedicated signal handler, since there, it is populated by Kernel
> + * itself in setup_sigframe(). The grabbed context is then stored and
> + * made available in td->live_uc.
> + *
> + * As service-signal is used a SIGTRAP induced by a 'brk' instruction,
> + * because here we have to avoid syscalls to trigger the signal since
> + * they would cause any SVE sigframe content (if any) to be removed.
> + *
> + * Anyway this function really serves a dual purpose:
> + *
> + * 1. grab a valid sigcontext into td->live_uc for result analysis: in
> + * such case it returns 1.
> + *
> + * 2. detect if, somehow, a previously grabbed live_uc context has been
> + * used actively with a sigreturn: in such a case the execution would have
> + * magically resumed in the middle of this function itself (seen_already==1):
> + * in such a case return 0, since in fact we have not just simply grabbed
> + * the context.
> + *
> + * This latter case is useful to detect when a fake_sigreturn test-case has
> + * unexpectedly survived without hitting a SEGV.
> + *
> + * Note that the case of runtime dynamically sized sigframes (like in SVE
> + * context) is still NOT addressed: sigframe size is supposed to be fixed
> + * at sizeof(ucontext_t).
> + */
> +static __always_inline bool get_current_context(struct tdescr *td,
> +						ucontext_t *dest_uc)
> +{
> +	static volatile bool seen_already;
> +
> +	assert(td && dest_uc);
> +	/* it's a genuine invocation..reinit */
> +	seen_already = 0;
> +	td->live_uc_valid = 0;
> +	td->live_sz = sizeof(*dest_uc);
> +	memset(dest_uc, 0x00, td->live_sz);
> +	td->live_uc = dest_uc;
> +	/*
> +	 * Grab ucontext_t triggering a SIGTRAP.
> +	 *
> +	 * Note that:
> +	 * - live_uc_valid is declared volatile sig_atomic_t in
> +	 *   struct tdescr since it will be changed inside the
> +	 *   sig_copyctx handler
> +	 * - the additional 'memory' clobber is there to avoid possible
> +	 *   compiler's assumption on live_uc_valid and the content
> +	 *   pointed by dest_uc, which are all changed inside the signal
> +	 *   handler
> +	 * - BRK causes a debug exception which is handled by the Kernel
> +	 *   and finally causes the SIGTRAP signal to be delivered to this
> +	 *   test thread. Since such delivery happens on the ret_to_user()
> +	 *   /do_notify_resume() debug exception return-path, we are sure
> +	 *   that the registered SIGTRAP handler has been run to completion
> +	 *   before the execution path is restored here: as a consequence
> +	 *   we can be sure that the volatile sig_atomic_t live_uc_valid
> +	 *   carries a meaningful result. Being in a single thread context
> +	 *   we'll also be sure that any access to memory modified by the
> +	 *   handler (namely ucontext_t) will be visible once returned.
> +	 * - note that since we are using a breakpoint instruction here
> +	 *   to cause a SIGTRAP, the ucontext_t grabbed from the signal
> +	 *   handler would naturally contain a PC pointing exactly to this
> +	 *   BRK line, which means that, on return from the signal handler,
> +	 *   or if we place the ucontext_t on the stack to fake a sigreturn,
> +	 *   we'll end up in an infinite loop of BRK-SIGTRAP-handler.
> +	 *   For this reason we take care to artificially move forward the
> +	 *   PC to the next instruction while inside the signal handler.
> +	 */
> +	asm volatile ("brk #666"
> +		      : "+m" (*dest_uc)
> +		      :
> +		      : "memory");
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If we get here with seen_already==1 it implies the td->live_uc
> +	 * context has been used to get back here....this probably means
> +	 * a test has failed to cause a SEGV...anyway live_uc does not
> +	 * point to a just acquired copy of ucontext_t...so return 0
> +	 */
> +	if (seen_already) {
> +		fprintf(stdout,
> +			"Unexpected successful sigreturn detected: live_uc is stale !\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	seen_already = 1;
> +
> +	return td->live_uc_valid;
> +}
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
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Cristian Marussi Oct. 9, 2019, 11:57 a.m. UTC | #2
On 09/10/2019 12:32, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:26:05AM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
>> Introduce a new common utility function get_current_context() which can be
>> used to grab a ucontext without the help of libc, and also to detect if
>> such ucontext has been successfully used by placing it on the stack as a
>> fake sigframe.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> 

Thanks

Cristian
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
>> ---
>> v7 --> v8
>> - added new in v8 (splitted out from v7 05/11)
>> ---
>>  .../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h     |  6 +-
>>  .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c         | 31 ++++++
>>  .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h         | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
>> index 901521188202..4fd3ba01e3b1 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
>> @@ -88,8 +88,12 @@ struct tdescr {
>>  	/* optional sa_flags for the installed handler */
>>  	int			sa_flags;
>>  	ucontext_t		saved_uc;
>> +	/* used by get_current_ctx() */
>> +	size_t			live_sz;
>> +	ucontext_t		*live_uc;
>> +	volatile sig_atomic_t	live_uc_valid;
>>  	/* optional test private data */
>> -	void                    *priv;
>> +	void			*priv;
>>  
>>  	/* a custom setup: called alternatively to default_setup */
>>  	int (*setup)(struct tdescr *td);
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
>> index e8bbe36c2660..222148568adf 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
>> @@ -11,14 +11,19 @@
>>  #include <linux/auxvec.h>
>>  #include <ucontext.h>
>>  
>> +#include <asm/unistd.h>
>> +
>>  #include <kselftest.h>
>>  
>>  #include "test_signals.h"
>>  #include "test_signals_utils.h"
>>  #include "testcases/testcases.h"
>>  
>> +
>>  extern struct tdescr *current;
>>  
>> +static int sig_copyctx = SIGTRAP;
>> +
>>  static char const *const feats_names[FMAX_END] = {
>>  	" SSBS ",
>>  	" PAN ",
>> @@ -156,6 +161,20 @@ static bool handle_signal_ok(struct tdescr *td,
>>  	return true;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static bool handle_signal_copyctx(struct tdescr *td,
>> +				  siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
>> +{
>> +	/* Mangling PC to avoid loops on original BRK instr */
>> +	((ucontext_t *)uc)->uc_mcontext.pc += 4;
>> +	memcpy(td->live_uc, uc, td->live_sz);
>> +	ASSERT_GOOD_CONTEXT(td->live_uc);
>> +	td->live_uc_valid = 1;
>> +	fprintf(stderr,
>> +		"GOOD CONTEXT grabbed from sig_copyctx handler\n");
>> +
>> +	return true;
>> +}
>> +
>>  static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
>>  {
>>  	if (current->sig_unsupp && signum == current->sig_unsupp &&
>> @@ -167,6 +186,9 @@ static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
>>  	} else if (current->sig_ok && signum == current->sig_ok &&
>>  		   handle_signal_ok(current, si, uc)) {
>>  		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_OK\n");
>> +	} else if (signum == sig_copyctx && current->live_uc &&
>> +		   handle_signal_copyctx(current, si, uc)) {
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_COPYCTX\n");
>>  	} else {
>>  		if (signum == SIGALRM && current->timeout) {
>>  			fprintf(stderr, "-- Timeout !\n");
>> @@ -221,6 +243,15 @@ static inline int default_trigger(struct tdescr *td)
>>  
>>  int test_init(struct tdescr *td)
>>  {
>> +	if (td->sig_trig == sig_copyctx) {
>> +		fprintf(stdout,
>> +			"Signal %d is RESERVED, cannot be used as a trigger. Aborting\n",
>> +			sig_copyctx);
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>> +	/* just in case */
>> +	unblock_signal(sig_copyctx);
>> +
>>  	td->minsigstksz = getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ);
>>  	if (!td->minsigstksz)
>>  		td->minsigstksz = MINSIGSTKSZ;
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
>> index 5e3a2b7aaa8b..fd67b1f23c41 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
>> @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
>>  #ifndef __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
>>  #define __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
>>  
>> +#include <assert.h>
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>> +
>>  #include "test_signals.h"
>>  
>>  int test_init(struct tdescr *td);
>> @@ -17,4 +21,98 @@ static inline bool feats_ok(struct tdescr *td)
>>  	return (td->feats_required & td->feats_supported) == td->feats_required;
>>  }
>>  
>> +/*
>> + * Obtaining a valid and full-blown ucontext_t from userspace is tricky:
>> + * libc getcontext does() not save all the regs and messes with some of
>> + * them (pstate value in particular is not reliable).
>> + *
>> + * Here we use a service signal to grab the ucontext_t from inside a
>> + * dedicated signal handler, since there, it is populated by Kernel
>> + * itself in setup_sigframe(). The grabbed context is then stored and
>> + * made available in td->live_uc.
>> + *
>> + * As service-signal is used a SIGTRAP induced by a 'brk' instruction,
>> + * because here we have to avoid syscalls to trigger the signal since
>> + * they would cause any SVE sigframe content (if any) to be removed.
>> + *
>> + * Anyway this function really serves a dual purpose:
>> + *
>> + * 1. grab a valid sigcontext into td->live_uc for result analysis: in
>> + * such case it returns 1.
>> + *
>> + * 2. detect if, somehow, a previously grabbed live_uc context has been
>> + * used actively with a sigreturn: in such a case the execution would have
>> + * magically resumed in the middle of this function itself (seen_already==1):
>> + * in such a case return 0, since in fact we have not just simply grabbed
>> + * the context.
>> + *
>> + * This latter case is useful to detect when a fake_sigreturn test-case has
>> + * unexpectedly survived without hitting a SEGV.
>> + *
>> + * Note that the case of runtime dynamically sized sigframes (like in SVE
>> + * context) is still NOT addressed: sigframe size is supposed to be fixed
>> + * at sizeof(ucontext_t).
>> + */
>> +static __always_inline bool get_current_context(struct tdescr *td,
>> +						ucontext_t *dest_uc)
>> +{
>> +	static volatile bool seen_already;
>> +
>> +	assert(td && dest_uc);
>> +	/* it's a genuine invocation..reinit */
>> +	seen_already = 0;
>> +	td->live_uc_valid = 0;
>> +	td->live_sz = sizeof(*dest_uc);
>> +	memset(dest_uc, 0x00, td->live_sz);
>> +	td->live_uc = dest_uc;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Grab ucontext_t triggering a SIGTRAP.
>> +	 *
>> +	 * Note that:
>> +	 * - live_uc_valid is declared volatile sig_atomic_t in
>> +	 *   struct tdescr since it will be changed inside the
>> +	 *   sig_copyctx handler
>> +	 * - the additional 'memory' clobber is there to avoid possible
>> +	 *   compiler's assumption on live_uc_valid and the content
>> +	 *   pointed by dest_uc, which are all changed inside the signal
>> +	 *   handler
>> +	 * - BRK causes a debug exception which is handled by the Kernel
>> +	 *   and finally causes the SIGTRAP signal to be delivered to this
>> +	 *   test thread. Since such delivery happens on the ret_to_user()
>> +	 *   /do_notify_resume() debug exception return-path, we are sure
>> +	 *   that the registered SIGTRAP handler has been run to completion
>> +	 *   before the execution path is restored here: as a consequence
>> +	 *   we can be sure that the volatile sig_atomic_t live_uc_valid
>> +	 *   carries a meaningful result. Being in a single thread context
>> +	 *   we'll also be sure that any access to memory modified by the
>> +	 *   handler (namely ucontext_t) will be visible once returned.
>> +	 * - note that since we are using a breakpoint instruction here
>> +	 *   to cause a SIGTRAP, the ucontext_t grabbed from the signal
>> +	 *   handler would naturally contain a PC pointing exactly to this
>> +	 *   BRK line, which means that, on return from the signal handler,
>> +	 *   or if we place the ucontext_t on the stack to fake a sigreturn,
>> +	 *   we'll end up in an infinite loop of BRK-SIGTRAP-handler.
>> +	 *   For this reason we take care to artificially move forward the
>> +	 *   PC to the next instruction while inside the signal handler.
>> +	 */
>> +	asm volatile ("brk #666"
>> +		      : "+m" (*dest_uc)
>> +		      :
>> +		      : "memory");
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If we get here with seen_already==1 it implies the td->live_uc
>> +	 * context has been used to get back here....this probably means
>> +	 * a test has failed to cause a SEGV...anyway live_uc does not
>> +	 * point to a just acquired copy of ucontext_t...so return 0
>> +	 */
>> +	if (seen_already) {
>> +		fprintf(stdout,
>> +			"Unexpected successful sigreturn detected: live_uc is stale !\n");
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>> +	seen_already = 1;
>> +
>> +	return td->live_uc_valid;
>> +}
>>  #endif
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>
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diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
index 901521188202..4fd3ba01e3b1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h
@@ -88,8 +88,12 @@  struct tdescr {
 	/* optional sa_flags for the installed handler */
 	int			sa_flags;
 	ucontext_t		saved_uc;
+	/* used by get_current_ctx() */
+	size_t			live_sz;
+	ucontext_t		*live_uc;
+	volatile sig_atomic_t	live_uc_valid;
 	/* optional test private data */
-	void                    *priv;
+	void			*priv;
 
 	/* a custom setup: called alternatively to default_setup */
 	int (*setup)(struct tdescr *td);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
index e8bbe36c2660..222148568adf 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c
@@ -11,14 +11,19 @@ 
 #include <linux/auxvec.h>
 #include <ucontext.h>
 
+#include <asm/unistd.h>
+
 #include <kselftest.h>
 
 #include "test_signals.h"
 #include "test_signals_utils.h"
 #include "testcases/testcases.h"
 
+
 extern struct tdescr *current;
 
+static int sig_copyctx = SIGTRAP;
+
 static char const *const feats_names[FMAX_END] = {
 	" SSBS ",
 	" PAN ",
@@ -156,6 +161,20 @@  static bool handle_signal_ok(struct tdescr *td,
 	return true;
 }
 
+static bool handle_signal_copyctx(struct tdescr *td,
+				  siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
+{
+	/* Mangling PC to avoid loops on original BRK instr */
+	((ucontext_t *)uc)->uc_mcontext.pc += 4;
+	memcpy(td->live_uc, uc, td->live_sz);
+	ASSERT_GOOD_CONTEXT(td->live_uc);
+	td->live_uc_valid = 1;
+	fprintf(stderr,
+		"GOOD CONTEXT grabbed from sig_copyctx handler\n");
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
 {
 	if (current->sig_unsupp && signum == current->sig_unsupp &&
@@ -167,6 +186,9 @@  static void default_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
 	} else if (current->sig_ok && signum == current->sig_ok &&
 		   handle_signal_ok(current, si, uc)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_OK\n");
+	} else if (signum == sig_copyctx && current->live_uc &&
+		   handle_signal_copyctx(current, si, uc)) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Handled SIG_COPYCTX\n");
 	} else {
 		if (signum == SIGALRM && current->timeout) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "-- Timeout !\n");
@@ -221,6 +243,15 @@  static inline int default_trigger(struct tdescr *td)
 
 int test_init(struct tdescr *td)
 {
+	if (td->sig_trig == sig_copyctx) {
+		fprintf(stdout,
+			"Signal %d is RESERVED, cannot be used as a trigger. Aborting\n",
+			sig_copyctx);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	/* just in case */
+	unblock_signal(sig_copyctx);
+
 	td->minsigstksz = getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ);
 	if (!td->minsigstksz)
 		td->minsigstksz = MINSIGSTKSZ;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
index 5e3a2b7aaa8b..fd67b1f23c41 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ 
 #ifndef __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
 #define __TEST_SIGNALS_UTILS_H__
 
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
 #include "test_signals.h"
 
 int test_init(struct tdescr *td);
@@ -17,4 +21,98 @@  static inline bool feats_ok(struct tdescr *td)
 	return (td->feats_required & td->feats_supported) == td->feats_required;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Obtaining a valid and full-blown ucontext_t from userspace is tricky:
+ * libc getcontext does() not save all the regs and messes with some of
+ * them (pstate value in particular is not reliable).
+ *
+ * Here we use a service signal to grab the ucontext_t from inside a
+ * dedicated signal handler, since there, it is populated by Kernel
+ * itself in setup_sigframe(). The grabbed context is then stored and
+ * made available in td->live_uc.
+ *
+ * As service-signal is used a SIGTRAP induced by a 'brk' instruction,
+ * because here we have to avoid syscalls to trigger the signal since
+ * they would cause any SVE sigframe content (if any) to be removed.
+ *
+ * Anyway this function really serves a dual purpose:
+ *
+ * 1. grab a valid sigcontext into td->live_uc for result analysis: in
+ * such case it returns 1.
+ *
+ * 2. detect if, somehow, a previously grabbed live_uc context has been
+ * used actively with a sigreturn: in such a case the execution would have
+ * magically resumed in the middle of this function itself (seen_already==1):
+ * in such a case return 0, since in fact we have not just simply grabbed
+ * the context.
+ *
+ * This latter case is useful to detect when a fake_sigreturn test-case has
+ * unexpectedly survived without hitting a SEGV.
+ *
+ * Note that the case of runtime dynamically sized sigframes (like in SVE
+ * context) is still NOT addressed: sigframe size is supposed to be fixed
+ * at sizeof(ucontext_t).
+ */
+static __always_inline bool get_current_context(struct tdescr *td,
+						ucontext_t *dest_uc)
+{
+	static volatile bool seen_already;
+
+	assert(td && dest_uc);
+	/* it's a genuine invocation..reinit */
+	seen_already = 0;
+	td->live_uc_valid = 0;
+	td->live_sz = sizeof(*dest_uc);
+	memset(dest_uc, 0x00, td->live_sz);
+	td->live_uc = dest_uc;
+	/*
+	 * Grab ucontext_t triggering a SIGTRAP.
+	 *
+	 * Note that:
+	 * - live_uc_valid is declared volatile sig_atomic_t in
+	 *   struct tdescr since it will be changed inside the
+	 *   sig_copyctx handler
+	 * - the additional 'memory' clobber is there to avoid possible
+	 *   compiler's assumption on live_uc_valid and the content
+	 *   pointed by dest_uc, which are all changed inside the signal
+	 *   handler
+	 * - BRK causes a debug exception which is handled by the Kernel
+	 *   and finally causes the SIGTRAP signal to be delivered to this
+	 *   test thread. Since such delivery happens on the ret_to_user()
+	 *   /do_notify_resume() debug exception return-path, we are sure
+	 *   that the registered SIGTRAP handler has been run to completion
+	 *   before the execution path is restored here: as a consequence
+	 *   we can be sure that the volatile sig_atomic_t live_uc_valid
+	 *   carries a meaningful result. Being in a single thread context
+	 *   we'll also be sure that any access to memory modified by the
+	 *   handler (namely ucontext_t) will be visible once returned.
+	 * - note that since we are using a breakpoint instruction here
+	 *   to cause a SIGTRAP, the ucontext_t grabbed from the signal
+	 *   handler would naturally contain a PC pointing exactly to this
+	 *   BRK line, which means that, on return from the signal handler,
+	 *   or if we place the ucontext_t on the stack to fake a sigreturn,
+	 *   we'll end up in an infinite loop of BRK-SIGTRAP-handler.
+	 *   For this reason we take care to artificially move forward the
+	 *   PC to the next instruction while inside the signal handler.
+	 */
+	asm volatile ("brk #666"
+		      : "+m" (*dest_uc)
+		      :
+		      : "memory");
+
+	/*
+	 * If we get here with seen_already==1 it implies the td->live_uc
+	 * context has been used to get back here....this probably means
+	 * a test has failed to cause a SEGV...anyway live_uc does not
+	 * point to a just acquired copy of ucontext_t...so return 0
+	 */
+	if (seen_already) {
+		fprintf(stdout,
+			"Unexpected successful sigreturn detected: live_uc is stale !\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+	seen_already = 1;
+
+	return td->live_uc_valid;
+}
 #endif