From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:18:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h Message-Id: <4DE7FE2A.10107@zytor.com> List-Id: References: <20110602210458.23613.24076.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20110602210458.23613.24076.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eric Paris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, monstr@monstr.eu, ralf@linux-mips.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, davem@davemloft.net, jdike@addtoit.com, richard@nod.at, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, oleg@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On 06/02/2011 02:04 PM, Eric Paris wrote: > The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to > supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was. > Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify by > converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating > success or failure. This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid > pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall. The fix is to fix the > layering foolishness. We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it > in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to > determine if the syscall was a success or failure. > > In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old > audit code. But the ptrace_64.h code was previously using regs[3] for the > regs_return_value(). I have no idea which one is correct, but this patch now > uses regs[3]. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Paris For the x86 portions: Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin -hpa