linux-kernel - Re: For review: documentation of clone3() system call

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Message-ID: <87y2wrbras.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:10:51 +0100
From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: For review: documentation of clone3() system call

* Christian Brauner:

> I've always been confused by the "..." for the glibc wrapper. The glibc
> prototype in bits/sched.h also looks like this:
>
> extern int clone (int (*__fn) (void *__arg), void *__child_stack, int __flags, void *__arg, ...) __THROW;
>
> The additionl args parent_tid, tls, and child_tid are present in _all_
> clone version in the same order. In fact the glibc wrapper here give the
> illusion that it's parent_tid, tls, child_tid. The underlying syscall
> has a different order parent_tidptr, child_tidptr, tls.
>
> Florian, can you advise what prototype we should mention for the glibc
> clone() wrapper here. I'd like it to be as simple as possible and get
> rid of the ...
> Architectural differences are explained in detail below anyway.

Our header has:

/* Clone current process.  */
extern int clone (int (*__fn) (void *__arg), void *__child_stack,
                  int __flags, void *__arg, ...) __THROW;

I have not checked all assembler implementations.  In theory there could
be one that relies on the different calling convention for variadic
functions (e.g., the existence of a parameter save area on POWER).  Or
that swaps arguments in some architecure-specific way. 8-(

I don't have much guidance on this matter, sorry.  I expect that for
clone3, we'll provide a same-stack variant as well (for fork/vfork-like
usage), which will be much closer to the kernel interface.  clone/clone2
doesn't seem very fixable to me at this point.

Thanks,
Florian