Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933628Ab2HWHkw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:40:52 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:63975 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756045Ab2HWHkt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:40:49 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Will Deacon Subject: PER_LINUX32, Was: [PATCH v2 21/31] arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:46:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.5.0; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Catalin Marinas , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jiri Kosina , x86@kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Ralf Baechle , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201208151434.05145.arnd@arndb.de> <20120816102808.GH31784@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20120816102808.GH31784@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208230646.31276.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:fPTD3QvgNZIRTwTUrkvDVVZFVqOBQWZH8EgQA2/bwPb LH2JNX28mU7qBkxwAtI7wSppRKgCnvIiw+hjhb2F2/RimEGJdr 97di3Uon+PVDDYdp2WZicIaopEc7QmQaYuwl3DO5CKwU6Us0yR AB0w8yryWFuDWrQNEYzDGO2UJpcXpI08ItNz0TqXuHjrnq5/+h /sfFzAgNF0NKfAnySvyfu35eknfLlT8OSah0ELinXN5z1RBgjI EPDNz9jT26Mgm6n+CrVIPS6zi4Q/8aU4c7ll94iY+kzNESwb7K QhcctR3c8MOHJWWd5GzYRpyC9m1aLfBXodc4+Pnt7fleM9nFG5 kFFlVQSe5ngbJtwHCeHc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2720 Lines: 62 On Thursday 16 August 2012, Will Deacon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:34:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > +asmlinkage int compat_sys_personality(compat_ulong_t personality) > > > +{ > > > + int ret; > > > + > > > + if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 && > > > + personality == PER_LINUX) > > > + personality = PER_LINUX32; > > > + ret = sys_personality(personality); > > > + if (ret == PER_LINUX32) > > > + ret = PER_LINUX; > > > + return ret; > > > +} > > > > Where did you get this from? > > > > You should not need compat_sys_personality, just call the native function. > > Hmm, but in that case an aarch32 application doing a personality(PER_LINUX) > syscall will start seeing the wrong uname. Coming back at this topic, I noticed another issue. Jiri Kosina has recently posted patches to fix this function in the other architectures in order to mask out the other personality bits, which is a correct fix, but the above function is odd for other reasons. * On MIPS, it is used only for compat tasks, like you have it above. * On PA-RISC, it is used for native 32 bit tasks and for compat 32 bit tasks, but not for native 64 bit ones. * On IA64, it was used for compat tasks (support for which has since been removed from the kernel), plus all 32 bit tasks would start with PER_LINUX32. * On PowerPC, Sparc and s390, it is used for native 64 bit tasks and for compat 32 bit tasks, but not for native 32 bit ones. * On Tile, it was never used. * On x86_64, it used to be defined (copied from ia64) but not used throughout the git history. The semantics of the function are also interesting: The intention seems to be that to a compat task, PER_LINUX32 would appear as PER_LINUX. The effect is that any process can set PER_LINUX32 but it can never be unset except by a 64 bit MIPS or PA-RISC task. Since x86_64 does not implement this behavior at all, I suspect that there are now lots of things depending on not having it, while all the other architectures might also have some (even predating the x86_64 port) use cases that depend on depend on not being able to observe PER_LINUX32 in 32 bit compat tasks. I think we should try to agree on how this is all supposed to work and use common code, either put the ppc/sparc/s390 version into sys_personality, or remove all of them and just do what x86 and tile do, using the regular sys_personality for all tasks. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/