[PATCH v7 06/11] arm64/ptrace: Expand secure_computing() in place

Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Thu Nov 20 23:29:53 PST 2025



On 2025/11/19 1:12, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> On 17/11/2025 14:30, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> The generic entry expand secure_computing() in place and call
>> __secure_computing() directly.
>>
>> In order to switch to the generic entry for arm64, refactor
>> secure_computing() for syscall_trace_enter().
>>
>> No functional changes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>> index 707951ad5d24..9af3046a2ce9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>> @@ -2387,8 +2387,11 @@ int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall, unsigned long flags)
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	/* Do the secure computing after ptrace; failures should be fast. */
>> -	if (secure_computing() == -1)
>> -		return NO_SYSCALL;
>> +	if (flags & _TIF_SECCOMP) {
>> +		ret = __secure_computing(NULL);
> 
> No argument was passed to __secure_computing() in v6, as expected since
> it was removed in v6.15. Not sure why this NULL reappeared.
> 
There is a typo here.

>> +		if (ret == -1L)
> 
> ret is an int, so should be -1, not -1L.

Right, not -1L.

> 
> - Kevin
> 
>> +			return NO_SYSCALL;
>> +	}
>>  
>>  	/* Either of the above might have changed the syscall number */
>>  	syscall = syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
> 



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