[RFC PATCH 0/2] powerpc: change syscall error return scheme

Nicholas Piggin
2025-01-29T13:22:00Z

Hi,

I've been toying with the seccomp vs syscall return value problems, and
wonder if something like this approach could give us a simpler alternative.
Basically all the core code uses -errno return value, then we convert it
to the powerpc convention at the last minute when returning.

This seems to pass the seccomp_bpf test cases when applied with the set
syscall info ptrace patches

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171054.GA589@strace.io/

With patch 1 of that series reverted.

One concern is working out exact details of what tracers can see and
trying to ensure it doesn't break some corner case.

This could possibly be done for the other weird archs too, if it works
out for powerpc

Thanks,
Nick

Nicholas Piggin (2):
powerpc/signal: Clean up pt_regs access
powerpc/syscall: rework syscall return value handling

arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 13 +---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 31 +--------
arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c | 16 +++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c | 67 ++++++++++---------
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 5 +-
tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 16 +++++
6 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

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