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Message-ID: <52DCB2C9.2040702@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:23:21 +0900
From:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
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	"eparis@...hat.com" <eparis@...hat.com>,
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	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] arm64: audit: Add 32-bit (compat) syscall support

On 01/18/2014 01:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Akashi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:13:17AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> Generic audit code also support compat system calls now.
>> This patch adds a small piece of architecture dependent code.
>
> [...]
>
>>   static inline int syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,
>> @@ -109,6 +110,15 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
>>   static inline int syscall_get_arch(struct task_struct *task,
>>   				   struct pt_regs *regs)
>>   {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>> +	if (is_compat_thread(task_thread_info(task)))
>
> You can call is_compat_thread even when !CONFIG_COMPAT, so you don't need
> that #ifdef.

Right. I will remove it.

>> +#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
>> +		return AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB; /* only BE on BE */
>
> Well, actually, we only support userspace to be the same endianness as the
> kernel, so you that comment is slightly misleading. You could probably avoid
> these repeated ifdefs by defining things like ARM64_AUDIT_ARCH and
> ARM64_COMPAT_AUDIT_ARCH once depending on endianness.

As in the discussions about "audit(userspace)", if we don't have to care
about endianness, I will remove this #ifdef instead.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

> Will
>
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