[PATCH v2 02/14] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler

Andrew Donnellan ajd at linux.ibm.com
Mon Aug 1 20:00:27 AEST 2022


On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 16:25 +1000, Rohan McLure wrote:
> Syscall handlers should not be invoked internally by their symbol
> names,
> as these symbols defined by the architecture-defined SYSCALL_DEFINE
> macro. Fortunately, in the case of ppc64_personality, its call to
> sys_personality can be replaced with an invocation to the
> equivalent ksys_personality inline helper in <linux/syscalls.h>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure at linux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>

> ---
> V1 -> V2: Use inline helper to deduplicate bodies in compat/regular
> implementations.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> index ca20083dd0ae..22755502afc0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static inline long do_ppc64_personality(unsigned
> long personality)
>         if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32
>             && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
>                 personality = (personality & ~PER_MASK) |
> PER_LINUX32;
> -       ret = sys_personality(personality);
> +       ret = ksys_personality(personality);
>         if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32)
>                 ret = (ret & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX;
>         return ret;




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