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From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: use the correct function type for __arm64_sys_ni_syscall
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 11:32:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190507183227.GA10191@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190507172512.GA35803@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 06:25:12PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> I strongly think that we cant to fix up the common definition in
> kernel/sys_ni.c rather than having a point-hack in arm64. Other
> architectures (e.g. x86, s390) will want the same for CFI, and I'd like
> to ensure that our approached don't diverge.

s390 already has the following in arch/s390/kernel/sys_s390.c:

  SYSCALL_DEFINE0(ni_syscall)
  {
        return -ENOSYS;
  }

Which, I suppose, is cleaner than calling sys_ni_syscall.

> I took a quick look, and it looks like it's messy but possible to fix
> up the core.

OK. How would you propose fixing this?

Sami

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-07 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-03 19:12 [PATCH v2 0/3] fix function type mismatches in syscall wrappers Sami Tolvanen
2019-05-03 19:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: fix syscall_fn_t type Sami Tolvanen
2019-05-03 19:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: use the correct function type in SYSCALL_DEFINE0 Sami Tolvanen
2019-05-03 19:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: use the correct function type for __arm64_sys_ni_syscall Sami Tolvanen
2019-05-07 17:25   ` Mark Rutland
2019-05-07 18:32     ` Sami Tolvanen [this message]
2019-05-15 11:40       ` Will Deacon
2019-05-24 18:35         ` Will Deacon
2019-05-24 21:58           ` Sami Tolvanen

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