linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] selftests/mm: mseal, self_elf: fix missing __NR

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Message-ID: <9f3d50b9-6acf-4bab-b6ff-cd524ad0a2c8@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:02:32 -0700
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>,
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com>,
 Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
 "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
 Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] selftests/mm: mseal, self_elf: fix missing
 __NR_mseal

On 6/14/24 5:41 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.06.24 14:28, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 14.06.24 04:30, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> The selftests/mm build isn't exactly "broken", according to the current
>>> documentation, which still claims that one must run "make headers",
>>> before building the kselftests. However, according to the new plan to
>>> get rid of that requirement [1], they are future-broken: attempting to
>>> build selftests/mm *without* first running "make headers" will fail due
>>> to not finding __NR_mseal.
>>>
>>> Therefore,  add ./usr/include/asm/unistd_[32|x32|64].h (created via
>>> "make headers") to tools/uapi/, and change the selftests/mm files that
>>> require __NR_mseal to include from the correct location. The way to do
>>> so is to include <linux/unistd.h> instead of just <unistd.h>.
>>>
>>> [1] commit e076eaca5906 ("selftests: break the dependency upon local
>>> header files")
>>>
>>> Fixes: 4926c7a52de7 ("selftest mm/mseal memory sealing")
>>> Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>
>>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> If it works, great
> 
> ... thinking again, are some of these headers arch-specific (IOW, 
> generating them per-arch would result in something slightly different)?

Oh wow, yes they are. I'm guilty of x86-centric thinking (again).

hmm, this is going to make it really a lot of trouble to do this
approach. But there's no point in turning back now, so I guess I'd
better fire up the cross-compilers and generate for all the arches.

> 
> In tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h, we already do have 
> __NR_mseal ...

Yes, but it doesn't get used in selftests/mm, with the way headers are
set up right now.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA