[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64s/syscall: Use pt_regs.trap to distinguish syscall ABI difference between sc and scv syscalls

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu May 20 21:19:30 AEST 2021


The sc and scv 0 system calls have different ABI conventions, and
ptracers need to know which system call type is being used if it wants
to look at the syscall registers.

Document that pt_regs.trap can be used for this, and fix one in-tree user
to work with scv 0 syscalls.

Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Reported-by: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux.org>
Suggested-by: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst       | 10 +++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 27 ++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
index dabee3729e5a..56490c4c0c07 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst
@@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ auxiliary vector.
 
 scv 0 syscalls will always behave as PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC.
 
+ptrace
+------
+When ptracing system calls (PTRACE_SYSCALL), the pt_regs.trap value contains
+the system call type that can be used to distinguish between sc and scv 0
+system calls, and the different register conventions can be accounted for.
+
+If the value of (pt_regs.trap & 0xfff0) is 0xc00 then the system call was
+performed with the sc instruction, if it is 0x3000 then the system call was
+performed with the scv 0 instruction.
+
 vsyscall
 ========
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
index 98c3b647f54d..e3d5c77a8612 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
@@ -1753,16 +1753,25 @@ TEST_F(TRACE_poke, getpid_runs_normally)
 # define SYSCALL_RET_SET(_regs, _val)				\
 	do {							\
 		typeof(_val) _result = (_val);			\
-		/*						\
-		 * A syscall error is signaled by CR0 SO bit	\
-		 * and the code is stored as a positive value.	\
-		 */						\
-		if (_result < 0) {				\
-			SYSCALL_RET(_regs) = -_result;		\
-			(_regs).ccr |= 0x10000000;		\
-		} else {					\
+		if ((_regs.trap & 0xfff0) == 0x3000) {		\
+			/*					\
+			 * scv 0 system call uses -ve result	\
+			 * for error, so no need to adjust.	\
+			 */					\
 			SYSCALL_RET(_regs) = _result;		\
-			(_regs).ccr &= ~0x10000000;		\
+		} else {					\
+			/*					\
+			 * A syscall error is signaled by the	\
+			 * CR0 SO bit and the code is stored as	\
+			 * a positive value.			\
+			 */					\
+			if (_result < 0) {			\
+				SYSCALL_RET(_regs) = -_result;	\
+				(_regs).ccr |= 0x10000000;	\
+			} else {				\
+				SYSCALL_RET(_regs) = _result;	\
+				(_regs).ccr &= ~0x10000000;	\
+			}					\
 		}						\
 	} while (0)
 # define SYSCALL_RET_SET_ON_PTRACE_EXIT
-- 
2.23.0



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