Re: [PATCH v2 07/14] powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers

[Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 16:28 +1000, Rohan McLure wrote:
> The table of syscall handlers and registered compatibility syscall
> handlers has in past been produced using assembly, with function
> references resolved at link time. This moves link-time errors to
> compile-time, by rewriting systbl.S in C, and including the
> linux/syscalls.h, linux/compat.h and asm/syscalls.h headers for
> prototypes.
> 
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: New patch.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/{systbl.S => systbl.c} | 27 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> similarity index 59%
> rename from arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
> rename to arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> index cb3358886203..99ffdfef6b9c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> @@ -10,31 +10,32 @@
>   * PPC64 updates by Dave Engebretsen (engebret@us.ibm.com) 
>   */
>  
> -#include <asm/ppc_asm.h>
> +#include <linux/syscalls.h>
> +#include <linux/compat.h>
> +#include <asm/unistd.h>
> +#include <asm/syscalls.h>
>  
> -.section .rodata,"a"
> +#define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, entry, compat) __SYSCALL(nr,
> entry)
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> -       .p2align        3
> -#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry)   .8byte entry
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
> +#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry) [nr] = __powerpc_##entry,
> +#define __powerpc_sys_ni_syscall       sys_ni_syscall

Keep this until patch 10.

Otherwise looks alright to me.

>  #else
> -#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry)   .long entry
> +#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry) [nr] = entry,
>  #endif
>  
> -#define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat)      __SYSCALL(nr,
> native)
> -.globl sys_call_table
> -sys_call_table:
> +void *sys_call_table[] = {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>  #include <asm/syscall_table_64.h>
>  #else
>  #include <asm/syscall_table_32.h>
>  #endif
> +};
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>  #undef __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT
>  #define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat)      __SYSCALL(nr,
> compat)
> -.globl compat_sys_call_table
> -compat_sys_call_table:
> -#define compat_sys_sigsuspend  sys_sigsuspend
> +void *compat_sys_call_table[] = {
>  #include <asm/syscall_table_32.h>
> -#endif
> +};
> +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */

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Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited