[PATCH v2 08/13] sh: rework sync_file_range ABI
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Jun 25 16:11:56 AEST 2024
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 18:37 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> The unusual function calling conventions on SuperH ended up causing
> sync_file_range to have the wrong argument order, with the 'flags'
> argument getting sorted before 'nbytes' by the compiler.
>
> In userspace, I found that musl, glibc, uclibc and strace all expect the
> normal calling conventions with 'nbytes' last, so changing the kernel
> to match them should make all of those work.
>
> In order to be able to also fix libc implementations to work with existing
> kernels, they need to be able to tell which ABI is used. An easy way
> to do this is to add yet another system call using the sync_file_range2
> ABI that works the same on all architectures.
>
> Old user binaries can now work on new kernels, and new binaries can
> try the new sync_file_range2() to work with new kernels or fall back
> to the old sync_file_range() version if that doesn't exist.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 75c92acdd5b1 ("sh: Wire up new syscalls.")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c b/arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c
> index 9dca568509a5..d6f4afcb0e87 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c
> @@ -59,3 +59,14 @@ asmlinkage int sys_fadvise64_64_wrapper(int fd, u32 offset0, u32 offset1,
> (u64)len0 << 32 | len1, advice);
> #endif
> }
> +
> +/*
> + * swap the arguments the way that libc wants them instead of
> + * moving flags ahead of the 64-bit nbytes argument
> + */
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE6(sh_sync_file_range6, int, fd, SC_ARG64(offset),
> + SC_ARG64(nbytes), unsigned int, flags)
> +{
> + return ksys_sync_file_range(fd, SC_VAL64(loff_t, offset),
> + SC_VAL64(loff_t, nbytes), flags);
> +}
> diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> index bbf83a2db986..c55fd7696d40 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
> 311 common set_robust_list sys_set_robust_list
> 312 common get_robust_list sys_get_robust_list
> 313 common splice sys_splice
> -314 common sync_file_range sys_sync_file_range
> +314 common sync_file_range sys_sh_sync_file_range6
> 315 common tee sys_tee
> 316 common vmsplice sys_vmsplice
> 317 common move_pages sys_move_pages
> @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@
> 385 common pkey_alloc sys_pkey_alloc
> 386 common pkey_free sys_pkey_free
> 387 common rseq sys_rseq
> +388 common sync_file_range2 sys_sync_file_range2
> # room for arch specific syscalls
> 393 common semget sys_semget
> 394 common semctl sys_semctl
Acked-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>
Adrian
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