[PATCH 07/15] parisc: use generic sys_fanotify_mark implementation
LEROY Christophe
christophe.leroy2 at cs-soprasteria.com
Fri Jun 21 15:26:27 AEST 2024
Le 20/06/2024 à 23:21, Helge Deller a écrit :
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> On 6/20/24 18:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> The sys_fanotify_mark() syscall on parisc uses the reverse word order
>> for the two halves of the 64-bit argument compared to all syscalls on
>> all 32-bit architectures. As far as I can tell, the problem is that
>> the function arguments on parisc are sorted backwards (26, 25, 24, 23,
>> ...) compared to everyone else,
>
> r26 is arg0, r25 is arg1, and so on.
> I'm not sure I would call this "sorted backwards".
> I think the reason is simply that hppa is the only 32-bit big-endian
> arch left...
powerpc/32 is big-endian: r3 is arg0, r4 is arg1, ... r10 is arg7.
In case of a 64bits arg, r3 is the high part and r4 is the low part.
Christophe
>
>> so the calling conventions of using an
>> even/odd register pair in native word order result in the lower word
>> coming first in function arguments, matching the expected behavior
>> on little-endian architectures. The system call conventions however
>> ended up matching what the other 32-bit architectures do.
>>
>> A glibc cleanup in 2020 changed the userspace behavior in a way that
>> handles all architectures consistently, but this inadvertently broke
>> parisc32 by changing to the same method as everyone else.
>
> I appreciate such cleanups to make arches consistent.
> But it's bad if breakages aren't noticed or reported then...
>
>> The change made it into glibc-2.35 and subsequently into debian 12
>> (bookworm), which is the latest stable release. This means we
>> need to choose between reverting the glibc change or changing the
>> kernel to match it again, but either hange will leave some systems
>> broken.
>>
>> Pick the option that is more likely to help current and future
>> users and change the kernel to match current glibc.
>
> Agreed (assuming we have really a problem on parisc).
>
>> This also
>> means the behavior is now consistent across architectures, but
>> it breaks running new kernels with old glibc builds before 2.35.
>>
>> Link:
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d150181d73d9
>> Link:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c?h=57b1dfbd5b4a39d
>> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella at linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> ---
>> I found this through code inspection, please double-check to make
>> sure I got the bug and the fix right.
>
> The patch looks good at first sight.
> I'll pick it up in my parisc git tree and will do some testing the
> next few days and then push forward for 6.11 when it opens....
>
> Thank you!!
>
> Helge
>
>> The alternative is to fix this by reverting glibc back to the
>> unusual behavior.
>> ---
>> arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 +
>> arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c | 9 ---------
>> arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
>> index daafeb20f993..dc9b902de8ea 100644
>> --- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ config PARISC
>> select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
>> select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
>> select ARCH_NO_SG_CHAIN
>> + select ARCH_SPLIT_ARG64 if !64BIT
>> select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS if PA20
>> select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
>> select ARCH_STACKWALK
>> diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c
>> b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c
>> index 2a12a547b447..826c8e51b585 100644
>> --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c
>> +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc32.c
>> @@ -23,12 +23,3 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_unimplemented(int r26, int
>> r25, int r24, int r23,
>> current->comm, current->pid, r20);
>> return -ENOSYS;
>> }
>> -
>> -asmlinkage long sys32_fanotify_mark(compat_int_t fanotify_fd,
>> compat_uint_t flags,
>> - compat_uint_t mask0, compat_uint_t mask1, compat_int_t dfd,
>> - const char __user * pathname)
>> -{
>> - return sys_fanotify_mark(fanotify_fd, flags,
>> - ((__u64)mask1 << 32) | mask0,
>> - dfd, pathname);
>> -}
>> diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>> b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>> index 39e67fab7515..66dc406b12e4 100644
>> --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>> +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>> @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
>> 320 common accept4 sys_accept4
>> 321 common prlimit64 sys_prlimit64
>> 322 common fanotify_init sys_fanotify_init
>> -323 common fanotify_mark sys_fanotify_mark
>> sys32_fanotify_mark
>> +323 common fanotify_mark sys_fanotify_mark
>> compat_sys_fanotify_mark
>> 324 32 clock_adjtime sys_clock_adjtime32
>> 324 64 clock_adjtime sys_clock_adjtime
>> 325 common name_to_handle_at sys_name_to_handle_at
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