linux-kernel - Re: [musl] Re: [PATCHv3 00/24] ILP32 support in ARM64

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:12:34 +0100
From:	Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To:	musl@...ts.openwall.com, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"pinskia@...il.com" <pinskia@...il.com>,
	"libc-alpha@...rceware.org" <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
	Marcus Shawcroft <Marcus.Shawcroft@....com>
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [PATCHv3 00/24] ILP32 support in ARM64

* Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> [2015-02-11 20:05:37 +0100]:
> 
> (i think this is also a problem if userspace code uses syscall(2) directly,
> libc cannot possibly know where to signextend and the kernel side does not
> do the fixup right now)
> 

nobody picked up this issue, is this resolved?

ie. if userspace calls syscall(SYS_foo,...) directly with 32bit
longs does it always work out correctly on the kernel side?

the sign extension is a problem for signed long arguments,
i only found these in the kernel:


fs/buffer.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE2(bdflush, int, func, long, data)

fs/open.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE2(truncate, const char __user *, path, long, length)

fs/aio.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE3(io_submit, aio_context_t, ctx_id, long, nr,
fs/aio.c-               struct iocb __user * __user *, iocbpp)

fs/aio.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_getevents, aio_context_t, ctx_id,
fs/aio.c-               long, min_nr,
fs/aio.c-               long, nr,

kernel/ptrace.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, unsigned long, addr,
kernel/ptrace.c-                unsigned long, data)

ipc/syscall.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE6(ipc, unsigned int, call, int, first, unsigned long, second,
ipc/syscall.c-          unsigned long, third, void __user *, ptr, long, fifth)
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