Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC

[Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>]

On 01/07/26 10:26 am, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
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> Le 01/07/2026 à 06:32, Venkat Rao Bagalkote a écrit :
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>> On 01/07/26 7:44 am, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7/1/26 12:41 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM Madhavan Srinivasan 
>>>> <maddy@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 5/13/26 10:05 AM, Harsh Prateek Bora wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/03/26 12:49 am, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
>>>>>>> <chleroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
>>>>>>>> targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
>>>>>>>> support for bi-arch like powerpc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
>>>>>>>> added generic support for bi-arch.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With this change generated text is similar.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing 
>>>>>>>> filter_exclude/test
>>>>>>>> is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/? 
>>>>>>>> url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fall%2F20260306115350- 
>>>>>>>> ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67%40linutronix.de%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C81e1e4e3bae245103d3308ded729bb47%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C639184771399964577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FtCHXFR5np67gntCnXqv7Eemo5WuwaIEcywxZQzDADA%3D&reserved=0 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Link: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/? 
>>>>>>>> url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flinuxppc%2Fissues%2Fissues%2F412&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C81e1e4e3bae245103d3308ded729bb47%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C639184771400190794%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4fPEX7HuGBcxOcXlcJVQvDdP7Y9InhDpbz3z%2BS9lkCQ%3D&reserved=0
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> Venkat, a test result with
>>>>>>>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/? 
>>>>>>>> url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flinux-audit%2Faudit- 
>>>>>>>> testsuite&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C81e1e4e3bae245103d3308ded729bb47%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C639184771400214912%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yHp3p5zNx%2BqQg2cKBsKJADWcUcKVtZstzNScBfWzF%2FQ%3D&reserved=0 
>>>>>>>> would be appreciated.
>>>>>>> Yes, I'd like to see confirmation that the audit test suite runs 
>>>>>>> clean
>>>>>>> on ppc systems with this patch applied, and unfortunately without a
>>>>>>> ppc system I have no way to test this myself.
>>>>> My bad, this is a miss from my end.
>>>>> Venkat is already on this and will update the results here.
>>>> Do we have an update on this?  Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall
>>>> seeing any test results.
>>> Venkat, did run the test but I guess he missed to respond here,
>>> Details of his test run that he shared me in the internal chat from 
>>> May 13.
>>
>>
>> Sorry, My bad. I missed updating here. Yes, this was tested in May. 
>> Please let me know, if a re-run is required?
>
> It looks like netcat (https://linux.die.net/man/1/nc) is not installed 
> in you setup. Are you able to install it and rerun the test ?


I investigated the failure on the RHEL 10 ppc64le test system.


The netfilter_pkt failure is due to missing userspace dependencies:

Can't exec "nc": No such file or directory
Can't exec "iptables": No such file or directory
Can't exec "ip6tables": No such file or directory

I checked the system and confirmed that nc, ncat, iptables, and 
ip6tables are not installed:


which nc
which ncat
which iptables
which ip6tables


all return "not found".

The system has nftables installed (/usr/sbin/nft), but I was unable to 
locate packages providing nc/ncat or iptables/ip6tables in the currently 
enabled repositories (epel, rh10_base, rh10_app, rh10_crb).


At this point, the remaining failure appears to be an environmental 
dependency issue rather than a test failure. Please let me know if there 
is a recommended package/repository for EL10 ppc64le that provides 
netcat and iptables compatibility tools, and I can re-run the test.


Regards,

Venkat.

>
> Thanks
> Christophe
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Venkat.
>>
>>>
>>> backlog_wait_time_actual_reset/test .. ok
>>> bpf/test ............................. ok
>>> exec_execve/test ..................... ok
>>> exec_name/test ....................... ok
>>> fanotify/test ........................ ok
>>> field_compare/test ................... ok
>>> file_create/test ..................... ok
>>> file_delete/test ..................... ok
>>> file_permission/test ................. ok
>>> file_rename/test ..................... ok
>>> filter_exclude/test .................. ok
>>> filter_exit/test ..................... ok
>>> filter_saddr_fam/test ................ ok
>>> filter_sessionid/test ................ ok
>>> io_uring/test ........................ ok
>>> login_tty/test ....................... ok
>>> lost_reset/test ...................... ok
>>> netfilter_pkt/test ................... Can't exec "nc": No such file 
>>> or directory at netfilter_pkt/test line 83.
>>>
>>> Venkat, can you please re-run if possible and paste the log here.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Maddy
>>>
>>>
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