linux-kernel - Re: [Regression v4.2 ?] 32-bit seccomp-BPF returned errno values wrong in VM?

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:58:50 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression v4.2 ?] 32-bit seccomp-BPF returned errno values
 wrong in VM?

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does the attached patch make sense and work?
>
> Btw, I'm not all that happy with it anyway.
>
> I still think Denys' patch also potentially changed what audit and
> strace see for %rax in the pt_regs to -ENOSYS, which I'm not convinced
> is a good change.

For better for for worse, the native 64-bit path changed several
versions agi, and nothing broke that I'm aware of.  The change was:

commit 54eea9957f5763dd1a2555d7e4cb53b4dd389cc6
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Date:   Fri Sep 5 15:13:55 2014 -0700

    x86_64, entry: Treat regs->ax the same in fastpath and slowpath syscalls

AFAIK, ptrace has always seen ax == -ENOSYS on syscall entry for
native 64-bit syscalls.  My change just simplified the fast path
(which is invisible by ptrace for obvious reasons, unless someone
traces fork or something along those lines *without*) and made it less
different from the slow path.  (IIRC it also simplified some stuff
down the road.)

Looking at 3.19's ia32entry.S, it has:

sysenter_tracesys:
#ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
        testl   $(_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY &
~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP-ARGOFFSET)
        jz      sysenter_auditsys
#endif
        SAVE_REST
        CLEAR_RREGS
        movq    $-ENOSYS,RAX(%rsp)/* ptrace can change this for a bad syscall */

So I think it's always been the intent and practice that ptracers
would see ax == -ENOSYS on syscall entry.

IOW, whether this is good or bad, I don't think it's really a change.

--Andy
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