Re: [PATCH] x86: ipc: fix x32 version of shmid64_ds and msqid64_ds

Arnd Bergmann
2018-04-22T20:17:18Z

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 2:38 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Glibc has correct header files for system calls. I have a very old
> program to check if Linux kernel header files are correct for user
> space:
>
> https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-header
>
> It needs update to check uapi.

Simply running 'make' on a regular distro shows this output:

--- kernel.x32.out 2018-04-22 22:10:16.053432423 +0200
+++ glibc.x32.out 2018-04-22 22:10:16.073432838 +0200
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ size of daddr_t: 4
size of __ipc_pid_t: 4
size of struct ipc_perm: 48
size of mqd_t: 4
-size of struct msqid_ds: 144
+size of struct msqid_ds: 120
size of struct semid_ds: 104
-size of struct shmid_ds: 136
+size of struct shmid_ds: 112
size of struct shminfo: 72
size of struct timeval: 16
size of struct timespec: 16
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ size of struct mq_attr: 64
size of struct rlimit: 16
size of struct rusage: 144
size of struct stat: 144
-size of struct statfs: 64
-size of struct statfs64: 88
+size of struct statfs: 120
+size of struct statfs64: 120
size of struct timex: 208
size of struct msginfo: 32
size of struct msgbuf: 16

This seems plausible, the statfs structure clearly has the same problem
as msqid_ds/shmid_ds based on its usage of '__statfs_word' which is
now defined as '__u32' rather than '__kernel_long_t'.

It should be trivial to override __statfs_word from
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/statfs.h

I've checked the other uses of __BITS_PER_LONG in the uapi
headers now, and all the others are either not relevant for x32
(either definition is fine) or it has to be __BITS_PER_LONG=32.

Arnd