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Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:59:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)" To: oleg@redhat.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org, msuchanek@suse.de, mchauras@linux.ibm.com, mkchauras@gmail.com, sshegde@linux.ibm.com, segher@kernel.crashing.org, thuth@redhat.com, kees@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH V5] powerpc/syscall: Fix syscall skip handling for seccomp and ptrace Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:29:35 +0530 Message-ID: <20260714075935.1830145-1-mkchauras@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After enabling GENERIC_ENTRY on PowerPC, syscall_enter_from_user_mode() returns -1 as a sentinel to signal that seccomp or ptrace has intercepted the syscall and already set a return value via syscall_set_return_value(). system_call_exception() was not handling this sentinel, and since -1UL is >= NR_syscalls, the code fell into the out-of-range path and returned -ENOSYS, overwriting the errno already placed in regs->gpr[3]. The naive fix of checking r0 == -1L before the NR_syscalls bounds check is ambiguous: a user legitimately calling syscall(-1) also produces r0 == -1L, and a tracer intercepting such a call would have its injected return value silently discarded. Fix this properly by introducing regs->entry_flags, a kernel-internal field in struct pt_regs (consuming one slot of the existing __pt_regs_pad so the ABI is preserved), with SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET as an out-of-band flag. syscall_set_return_value() sets this flag whenever seccomp or ptrace injects a return value. system_call_exception() zeros entry_flags before calling syscall_enter_from_user_mode(), then checks and clears the flag afterwards: if set, it returns regs->gpr[3] directly regardless of what syscall number the user originally requested. This handles all seccomp actions correctly: - SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE (no tracer), SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF: all call syscall_set_return_value(), flag is set, injected value returned. - SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, SECCOMP_RET_KILL: call syscall_rollback() and deliver a signal; flag is not set, but the process is dying so the return value is irrelevant. The fix covers both ppc32 and ppc64 with no #ifdefs. Fixes: bee25f97ad24 ("powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature") Reported-by: Michal Suchánek Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ajpp-_XnbF3UTM_E@kunlun.suse.cz/ Tested-by: Michal Suchánek Reviewed-by: Michal Suchánek Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) --- v4 -> v5: - Fixed build failure where BITS macro is not available v3 -> v4: - Use syscall_get_error (Michal) v2 -> v3: - Last fix is not working for -1 syscall. Fixed that with this. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260629182946.419552-1-mkchauras@gmail.com v1 -> v2: - Fix issues in the previous fix (Michal) v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260624171520.772408-1-mkchauras@gmail.com arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 6 ++++++ arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 6 ++++-- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h index fdeb97421785..363a89787f1c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_PTRACE_H #define _ASM_POWERPC_PTRACE_H +#include #include #include #include @@ -54,8 +55,9 @@ struct pt_regs }; unsigned long result; unsigned long exit_flags; + unsigned long entry_flags; /* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */ - unsigned long __pt_regs_pad[3]; + unsigned long __pt_regs_pad[2]; }; }; #if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP) @@ -233,6 +235,25 @@ static inline unsigned long frame_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs) #define current_pt_regs() \ ((struct pt_regs *)((unsigned long)task_stack_page(current) + THREAD_SIZE) - 1) +/* + * SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET: seccomp or ptrace called syscall_set_return_value() + * and wants the syscall skipped; regs->gpr[3] already holds the return value. + */ +#define SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET BIT(0) + +static inline void set_syscall_entry_ret(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + regs->entry_flags |= SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET; +} + +static inline bool test_and_clear_syscall_entry_ret(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + bool set = !!(regs->entry_flags & SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET); + + regs->entry_flags &= ~SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET; + return set; +} + /* * The 4 low bits (0xf) are available as flags to overload the trap word, * because interrupt vectors have minimum alignment of 0x10. TRAP_FLAGS_MASK diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h index 834fcc4f7b54..9ae79326abe3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h @@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ static inline void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task, regs->gpr[3] = val; } } + /* + * Mark that a return value has been explicitly set by seccomp or + * ptrace so that system_call_exception() can skip the syscall + * unconditionally, even when the user requested syscall(-1). + */ + set_syscall_entry_ret(regs); } static inline void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task, diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h index a393b7f2760a..2f2a43414fe6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ struct pt_regs unsigned long dsisr; /* on 4xx/Book-E used for ESR */ unsigned long result; /* Result of a system call */ unsigned long exit_flags; /* System call exit flags */ - unsigned long __pt_regs_pad[3]; /* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */ + unsigned long entry_flags; /* System call entry flags */ + unsigned long __pt_regs_pad[2]; /* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */ }; #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ @@ -117,7 +118,8 @@ struct pt_regs #define PT_DSISR 42 #define PT_RESULT 43 #define PT_EXIT_FLAGS 44 -#define PT_PAD 47 /* 3 times */ +#define PT_ENTRY_FLAGS 45 +#define PT_PAD 46 /* 2 times */ #define PT_DSCR 48 #define PT_REGS_COUNT 48 diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c index 316d4f5ead8e..440d00690cf2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c @@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ void __init pt_regs_check(void) offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, dsisr)); BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, result) != offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, result)); + BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pt_regs, entry_flags) != + offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, entry_flags)); BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct user_pt_regs) > sizeof(struct pt_regs)); diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c index a9da2af6efa8..a43d3a9428cc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c @@ -19,9 +19,27 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long r0) long ret; syscall_fn f; + /* + * Zero entry_flags before syscall_enter_from_user_mode() so that + * syscall_set_return_value() can set SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET as an + * unambiguous out-of-band signal. The field is not initialised by + * the entry assembly. + */ + regs->entry_flags = 0; add_random_kstack_offset(); r0 = syscall_enter_from_user_mode(regs, r0); + /* + * Seccomp or ptrace may have set a return value and requested that + * the syscall be skipped. syscall_set_return_value() sets + * SYSCALL_ENTRY_RET_SET in regs->entry_flags as an + * unambiguous out-of-band signal. This avoids the ambiguity of + * using r0 == -1 as the skip sentinel when the user themselves + * called syscall(-1). + */ + if (unlikely(test_and_clear_syscall_entry_ret(regs))) + return syscall_get_error(current, regs); + if (unlikely(r0 >= NR_syscalls)) { if (unlikely(trap_is_unsupported_scv(regs))) { /* Unsupported scv vector */ -- 2.55.0