SYSV IPC broken for no-legacy syscall kernels (was Re: [RFC PATCH v1 26/31] ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker script)

[Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>]

Hi Arnd,

On Wednesday 07 November 2012 07:43 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>
>> +
>> +config ARC
>> +	def_bool y
>> +	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
>> +	# ARC Busybox based initramfs absolutely relies on DEVTMPFS for /dev
>> +	# DEVTMPS in turn needs HOTPLUG
>> +	select DEVTMPFS if !INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
>> +	select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
>> +	select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
>> +	select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
>> +	# for now, we don't need GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE, CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
>> +	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
>> +	select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP
>> +	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
>> +	select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
>> +	select HOTPLUG if !INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
>> +	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
> You should not need ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION

It seems, we have a small bug in sysV IPC.
A lot of LTP tests have started failing on ARC 3.9-rc1 kernel due to absence of
ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION.

I'm assuming that for newer arches, msgctl(2) and friends need to have  need to
have @cmd of type 0x01nn where 0x0100 is IPC_64.
However for ! ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION, ipc/util.h seems to be defining a dummy
version of ipc_parse_version(), which doesn't strip out the 0x0100 from @cmds,
causing the code to not enter the switch block in SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msgctl) making
it fail.
Adding the above item to arch/arc/Kconfig obviously fixes the breakage.

It seems there is some bogosity in the way ipc_parse_version() is defined. Given
the way it is used, to strip out the 0x0100 bit, it seems we always need the
function variant - the IA-64 ish comment in there seems to be bit-rot.

What do you think ?

-Vineet