linux-user: Fix race between multiple signals

If multiple host signals are received in quick succession they would
be queued in TaskState then delivered to the guest in spite of
signals being supposed to be blocked by the guest signal handler's
sa_mask. Fix this by decoupling the guest signal mask from the
host signal mask, so we can have protected sections where all
host signals are blocked. In particular we block signals from
when host_signal_handler() queues a signal from the guest until
process_pending_signals() has unqueued it. We also block signals
while we are manipulating the guest signal mask in emulation of
sigprocmask and similar syscalls.

Blocking host signals also ensures the correct behaviour with respect
to multiple threads and the overrun count of timer related signals.
Alas blocking and queuing in qemu is still needed because of virtual
processor exceptions, SIGSEGV and SIGBUS.

Blocking signals inside process_pending_signals() protects against
concurrency problems that would otherwise happen if host_signal_handler()
ran and accessed the signal data structures while process_pending_signals()
was manipulating them.

Since we now track the guest signal mask separately from that
of the host, the sigsuspend system calls must track the signal
mask passed to them, because when we process signals as we leave
the sigsuspend the guest signal mask in force is that passed to
sigsuspend.

Signed-off-by: Timothy Edward Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
Message-id: 1441497448-32489-19-git-send-email-T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk
[PMM: make signal_pending a simple flag rather than a word with two flag bits;
 ensure we don't call block_signals() twice in sigreturn codepaths;
 document and assert() the guarantee that using do_sigprocmask() to
 get the current mask never fails;  use the qemu atomics.h functions
 rather than raw volatile variable access; add extra commentary and
 documentation; block SIGSEGV/SIGBUS in block_signals() and in
 process_pending_signals() because they can't occur synchronously here;
 check the right do_sigprocmask() call for errors in ssetmask syscall;
 expand commit message; fixed sigsuspend() hanging]
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>

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