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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(1h);
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(1t);
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(2h);
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(2t);
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(3h);
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Try to mangle the ucontext from inside a signal handler, toggling
+ * the mode bit to escalate exception level: this attempt must be spotted
+ * by Kernel and the test case is expected to be termninated via SEGV.
+ */
+
+#include "test_signals_utils.h"
+#include "testcases.h"
+
+#include "mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_template.h"
+
+DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(3t);
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Utility macro to ease definition of testcases toggling mode EL
+ */
+
+#define DEFINE_TESTCASE_MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE(_mode) \
+ \
+static int mangle_invalid_pstate_run(struct tdescr *td, siginfo_t *si, \
+ ucontext_t *uc) \
+{ \
+ ASSERT_GOOD_CONTEXT(uc); \
+ \
+ uc->uc_mcontext.pstate &= ~PSR_MODE_MASK; \
+ uc->uc_mcontext.pstate |= PSR_MODE_EL ## _mode; \
+ \
+ return 1; \
+} \
+ \
+struct tdescr tde = { \
+ .sanity_disabled = true, \
+ .name = "MANGLE_PSTATE_INVALID_MODE_EL"#_mode, \
+ .descr = "Mangling uc_mcontext INVALID MODE EL"#_mode, \
+ .sig_trig = SIGUSR1, \
+ .sig_ok = SIGSEGV, \
+ .run = mangle_invalid_pstate_run, \
+}