Re: [PATCH V4] powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()

Paul Moore
2014-12-10T02:11:19Z

On Tuesday, December 09, 2014 03:37:07 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Since both ppc and ppc64 have LE variants which are now reported by uname,
> add that flag (__AUDIT_ARCH_LE) to syscall_get_arch() and add
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE variant.
>
> Without this, perf trace and auditctl fail.
>
> Mainline kernel reports ppc64le (per a058801) but there is no matching
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE.
>
> Since 32-bit PPC LE is not supported by audit, don't advertise it in
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC* variants.
>
> See:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-August/msg00082.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-December/msg00004.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 6 +++++-
> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

The audit changes look fine to me, but as I mentioned earlier, this should go
in via the ppc tree and not the audit tree.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul-r2n+y4ga6xFZroRs9YW3xA@public.gmane.org>

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h index 6fa2708..d1934e5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct
> task_struct *task,
>
> static inline int syscall_get_arch(void)
> {
> - return is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_PPC : AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64;
> + int arch = is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_PPC : AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64;
> +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> + arch |= __AUDIT_ARCH_LE;
> +#endif
> + return arch;
> }
> #endif /* _ASM_SYSCALL_H */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> index 4d100c8..d82beec 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> @@ -364,7 +364,9 @@ enum {
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PARISC (EM_PARISC)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PARISC64 (EM_PARISC|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC (EM_PPC)
> +/* do not define AUDIT_ARCH_PPCLE since it is not supported by audit */
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64 (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> +#define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT|__AUDIT_ARCH_LE)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390 (EM_S390)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390X (EM_S390|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_SH (EM_SH)

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paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat