From: "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Rohan McLure" <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:42:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMUBPLVNQ20M.17MH4E1U3AY7Y@bobo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220824020548.62625-6-rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed Aug 24, 2022 at 12:05 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> Syscall handlers should not be invoked internally by their symbol names,
> as these symbols defined by the architecture-defined SYSCALL_DEFINE
> macro. Fortunately, in the case of ppc64_personality, its call to
> sys_personality can be replaced with an invocation to the
> equivalent ksys_personality inline helper in <linux/syscalls.h>.
Huh. I wonder why sys_personality doesn't just call ksys_personality
too. Anyway this looks good.
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Several of your steps like this one look like they apply to other archs
as well. You might consider ccing linux-arch for some of these.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: Use inline helper to deduplicate bodies in compat/regular
> implementations.
> V3 -> V4: Move to be applied before syscall wrapper.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> index 9f29e451e2de..b8461128c8f7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline long do_ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality)
> if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32
> && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
> personality = (personality & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX32;
> - ret = sys_personality(personality);
> + ret = ksys_personality(personality);
> if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32)
> ret = (ret & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX;
> return ret;
> --
> 2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-12 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-24 2:05 [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions Rohan McLure
2022-08-25 7:04 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-09-12 8:20 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 02/20] powerpc: Use generic fallocate compatibility syscall Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 8:38 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-12 9:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-12 11:00 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-12 11:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 03/20] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:03 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 4:36 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 04/20] powerpc: Provide do_ppc64_personality helper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 05/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:42 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 06/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to mmap2 syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:47 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:06 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 07/20] powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific " Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:04 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 08/20] powerpc: Include all arch-specific syscall prototypes Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:33 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13 7:09 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 09/20] powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13 2:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 10/20] powerpc: Use common syscall handler type Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:45 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 1:02 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 11/20] powerpc: Add ZEROIZE_GPRS macros for register clears Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:09 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:47 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 12/20] Revert "powerpc/syscall: Save r3 in regs->orig_r3" Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:14 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 13/20] powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 14/20] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:47 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 15/20] powerpc/64s: Use {ZEROIZE,SAVE,REST}_GPRS macros in sc, scv 0 handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:49 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 16/20] powerpc/32: Clarify interrupt restores with REST_GPR macro in entry_32.S Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 17/20] powerpc/64e: Clarify register saves and clears with {SAVE,ZEROIZE}_GPRS Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:17 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 18/20] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:51 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 19/20] powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry in Book3S Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 6:55 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 0:43 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 20/20] powerpc/64e: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 0:55 ` [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
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