Re: [PATCH 00/13] tools/nolibc: riscv: Add full rv32 support

Zhangjin Wu
2023-05-28T12:53:15Z

> On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 06:39:57PM +0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> > > I have read the comments that others made on the series and overall
> > > agree. I've seen that you intend to prepare a v2. I think we must
> > > first decide how to better deal with emulated syscalls as I said in
> > > an earlier message. Probably that we should just add a specific test
> > > case for EFAULT in nolibc-test since it's the only one (I think) that
> > > risks to trigger crashes with emulated syscalls. We could also imagine
> > > dealing with the signal ourselves but I'm not that keen on going to
> > > implement signal() & longjmp() for now :-/
> > >
> >
> > Yes, user-space signal() may be the right direction, we just need to let
> > user-space not crash the kernel, what about this 'solution' for current stage
> > (consider the pure time64 support too):
> >
> > #if defined(NOLIBC) && defined(__NR_gettimeofday) && __SIZEOF_LONG__ == 8
> > CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_bad1); EXPECT_SYSER(1, gettimeofday((void *)1, NULL), -1, EFAULT); break;
> > CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_bad2); EXPECT_SYSER(1, gettimeofday(NULL, (void *)1), -1, EFAULT); break;
> > #endif
> >
> > This idea is from your commit 1da02f51088 ("selftests/nolibc: support glibc as
> > well") for glibc, but the difference is of course glibc not crashes the kernel.
>
> Well, I was imagining implementing an EXPECT_EFAULT() macro that would
> rely on whatever other macros we'd set to indicate that a syscall got
> remapped. But I had another check grepping for EFAULT:
>
> CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_bad1); EXPECT_SYSER(1, gettimeofday((void *)1, NULL), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_bad2); EXPECT_SYSER(1, gettimeofday(NULL, (void *)1), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(poll_fault); EXPECT_SYSER(1, poll((void *)1, 1, 0), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(prctl); EXPECT_SYSER(1, prctl(PR_SET_NAME, (unsigned long)NULL, 0, 0, 0), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(select_fault); EXPECT_SYSER(1, select(1, (void *)1, NULL, NULL, 0), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(stat_fault); EXPECT_SYSER(1, stat(NULL, &stat_buf), -1, EFAULT); break;
> CASE_TEST(syscall_args); EXPECT_SYSER(1, syscall(__NR_fstat, 0, NULL), -1, EFAULT); break;
>
> In short, they're very few, and several of these could simply be dropped
> as irrelevant once we know that the libc is able to remap them and
> dereference the arguments itself.
>
> I'd be fine with dropping the two gettimeofday_bad ones, poll_fault,
> select_fault and stat_fault. These ones already have at least one or
> two other tests. These ones were initially added because they were
> easy to implement, but if they're not relevant we can drop them and
> stop wondering how to hack around the tests.
>
> If that's OK for you as well I can do that.
>

The dropping of the others is not required, since currently, we only
found these two gettimeofday test cases have such issues when we
implement them with clock_gettime/time64, because there is a "timespec
to timeval" conversion in user-space, if the data pointer could be
passed to kernel space, there would be no such issues (kernel will
transfer data via put_user() helpers).

> > Btw, since the gettimeofday_null case may be optimized by compiler and not
> > trigger such errors:
> >
> > // rv32
> > nolibc-test.c:(.text.run_syscall+0x8c0): undefined reference to `__divdi3'
> >
> > // arm32
> > nolibc-test.c:(.text.run_syscall+0x820): undefined reference to `__aeabi_ldivmod'
> >
> > The above errors have been hidden after the disabling of the gettimeofday_bad1
> > test case, so, still need to solve it before sending v2.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean, I'm not seeing such a divide in
> the code. Or maybe you're speaking about what you got after some of your
> proposed changes ?
>
> > The method used by musl may work, but the high bits may be lost (from long long
> > to int)?
> >
> > tv->tv_usec = (int)ts.tv_nsec / 1000;
>
> Yes, and it would be even cleaner to use a uint here since tv_nsec is
> always positive. This will simply result in a multiplication and a
> shift on most platforms. Of course that's the type of thing you normally
> don't want on a fast path for some small systems but here code compacity
> counts more and that's fine.
>

Ok, will use uint here.

> > Perhaps we really need to add the missing __divdi3 and __aeabi_ldivmod and the
> > ones for the other architectures, or get one from lib/math/div64.c.
>
> No, these ones come from the compiler via libgcc_s, we must not try to
> reimplement them. And we should do our best to avoid depending on them
> to avoid the error you got above.
>
> > Will add such new test cases to detect the above issues:
> >
> > CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_tv); EXPECT_SYSZR(1, gettimeofday(&tv, NULL)); break;
> > CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_tz); EXPECT_SYSZR(1, gettimeofday(NULL, &tz)); break;
> > CASE_TEST(gettimeofday_tv_tz);EXPECT_SYSZR(1, gettimeofday(&tv, &tz)); break;
> >
> > May still require to add 'used' attribute to 'struct timeval tv' and 'struct
> > timeval tz' to let compiler not optimize them away.
>
> Maybe, or turn them to volatile as well.
>

Yeah, volatile is better.

> > For the waitid syscall based waitpid INT_MIN test case, I have prepared such
> > code:
> >
> > #define IF_TEST(name) \
> > if (strcmp(test, #name) == 0)
> >
> > const int _errorno(const char *test)
> > {
> > #ifdef __NR_wait4
> > IF_TEST(waitpid_min); return ESRCH;
> > #else /* __NR_waitid */
> > IF_TEST(waitpid_min); return EINVAL;
> > #endif
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > #define errorno(test) _errorno(#test)
> >
> > CASE_TEST(waitpid_min); EXPECT_SYSER(1, waitpid(INT_MIN, &tmp, WNOHANG), -1, errorno(waitpid_min)); break;
> >
> > Instead of simply disabling this case, the above code allows to return
> > different values for different syscalls.
>
> I don't like this, it gets particularly complicated to follow, especially
> since it doesn't rely on the underlying syscall but on which ones are
> defined, and supposes that the underlying implementation will use exactly
> these ones. Do not forget that we're not trying to verify that the tests
> provoke a specific syscall return, but that our syscall implementation
> returns the errno the application expects. If we see that one of them
> breaks, it means either that our test is wrong or undefined, or that our
> mapping of the syscall is incorrect. But in either case it indicates that
> an application relying on a specific errno would see a different value.
>
> Many syscalls can return various values among a set, depending on which
> error is tested first. If that's the case for the ones above, I'd largely
> prefer to have EXPECT_SYSER2() that accepts any errno among a set of two
> (and maybe layer EXPECT_SYSER3() if 3 errno are possible).
>

Ok.

> Also there's something to keep in mind: nolibc-test is just one userland
> application among others. This means that every time you need to modify
> it to shut up an error that pops up after a change to nolibc, it means
> that you're possibly breaking one application living on an edge case and
> explicitly checking for that errno value. It is not necessarily dramatic
> but that's still something to keep in mind. We've all seen some of our
> code fail after a syscall started to report a new errno value we didn't
> expect, so it's important to still be cautious here and not to rely too
> much on the ease of adapting error handling in nolibc-test.
>
> > Thanks very much and I have seen another two have been pushed too, will rebase
> > everything on this new branch.
>
> OK.
>
> > Based on the other suggestions from you and Thomas, I plan to send some generic
> > and independent changes at first, and then the left hard parts, It may simplify
> > the whole progress.
>
> Yes, thank you! As a general rule of thumb (which makes the handling
> easier for everyone including you), the least controversial changes should
> be proposed first. This often allows to merge the first half of the patches
> at once and saves you from having to reorder what's left.
>

That's true.

Thanks,
Zhangjin

> Willy