Re: [PATCH] aio: Wire up compat_sys_io_pgetevents_time64 for x86

[Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.de>]

Hello Arnd,

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 3:01 PM Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> The LTP test io_pgetevents02 fails in 32bit compat mode because an
>> nr_max of -1 appears to be treated as a large positive integer. This
>> causes pgetevents_time64 to return an event. The test expects the call
>> to fail and errno to be set to EINVAL.
>>
>> Using the compat syscall fixes the issue.
>>
>> Fixes: 7a35397f8c06 ("io_pgetevents: use __kernel_timespec")
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
>
> Thanks a lot for finding this, indeed there is definitely a mistake that
> this function is defined and not used, but I don't yet see how it would
> get to the specific failure you report.
>
> Between the two implementations, I can see a difference in the
> handling of the signal mask, but that should only affect architectures
> with incompatible compat_sigset_t, i.e. big-endian or
> _COMPAT_NSIG_WORDS!=_NSIG_WORDS, and the latter is
> never true for currently supported architectures. On x86, there is
> no difference in the sigset at all.
>
> The negative 'nr' and 'min_nr' arguments that you list as causing
> the problem /should/ be converted by the magic
> SYSCALL_DEFINE6() definition. If this is currently broken, I would
> expect other syscalls to be affected as well.

That is what I thought, but I couldn't think of another explanation for
it.

>
> Have you tried reproducing this on non-x86 architectures? If I
> misremembered how the compat conversion in SYSCALL_DEFINE6()
> works, then all architectures that support CONFIG_COMPAT have
> to be fixed.
>
>          Arnd

No, but I suppose I can try it on ARM or PowerPC. I suppose printing the
arguments would be a good idea too.

-- 
Thank you,
Richard.