From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:42:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCHv4 00/19] arm64: invoke syscalls with pt_regs In-Reply-To: <20180702110415.10465-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20180702110415.10465-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: <20180706164210.GC27483@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > This series reworks arm64's syscall handling to minimize the propagation > of user-controlled register values into speculated code paths. As with > x86 [1], a wrapper is generated for each syscall, which extracts the > argument from a struct pt_regs. During kernel entry from userspace, > registers are zeroed. > > The arm64 kernel code directly invokes some syscalls which the x86 code > doesn't, so I've added ksys_* wrappers for these, following the x86 > example. The rest of the series is arm64-specific. > > I've pushed the series out to my arm64/syscall-regs branch [2] on > kernel.org. Modulo the macro label nit in the ssbd code, this series looks fine to me. Catalin -- have you thrown this at LTP? Will