linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE

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Message-ID: <20200919224122.GJ3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:41:22 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:23:54PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 19, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:16:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:58:22PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >>> Said that, why not provide a variant that would take an explicit
> >>> "is it compat" argument and use it there?  And have the normal
> >>> one pass in_compat_syscall() to that...
> >> 
> >> That would help to not introduce a regression with this series yes.
> >> But it wouldn't fix existing bugs when io_uring is used to access
> >> read or write methods that use in_compat_syscall().  One example that
> >> I recently ran into is drivers/scsi/sg.c.
> > 
> > So screw such read/write methods - don't use them with io_uring.
> > That, BTW, is one of the reasons I'm sceptical about burying the
> > decisions deep into the callchain - we don't _want_ different
> > data layouts on read/write depending upon the 32bit vs. 64bit
> > caller, let alone the pointer-chasing garbage that is /dev/sg.
> 
> Well, we could remove in_compat_syscall(), etc and instead have an implicit parameter in DEFINE_SYSCALL.  Then everything would have to be explicit.  This would probably be a win, although it could be quite a bit of work.

It would not be a win - most of the syscalls don't give a damn
about 32bit vs. 64bit...