From: "Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)" <mkchauras@gmail.com>
To: oleg@redhat.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org, msuchanek@suse.de,
sshegde@linux.ibm.com, mkchauras@gmail.com,
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Subject: [PATCH V4] powerpc/syscall: Fix syscall skip handling for seccomp and ptrace
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 12:07:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707063729.387129-1-mkchauras@gmail.com> (raw)
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 <msuchanek@suse.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ajpp-_XnbF3UTM_E@kunlun.suse.cz/
Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
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, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
index fdeb97421785..1a53d5cfa8db 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ 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 +234,25 @@ 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
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