[PATCH v4 22/24] arm64:ilp32: use compat for stack_t

Pinski, Andrew Andrew.Pinski at caviumnetworks.com
Mon May 4 17:03:30 PDT 2015


> On Apr 13, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> We use a 'natively sized' stack_t in glibc (i.e. having a 32bit pointer for
> ss_sp), which requires the invocation of the compat layer for the following
> functionality:
> * sigaltstack
> * saving and restoring uc_stack during signal setup and returns

Can you explain why you want to use a natively sized stack_t?  My patches for glibc included changing stack_t too.  I would rather keep the same size stack_t between lp64 and ilp32 due easier gdb support. 

Thanks,
Andrew


> 
> As the userspace stack_t is natively sized, we avoid code duplication in the
> syscall table and can use the compat-functions to zero-extend the pointers
> involved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Muellner <christoph.muellner at theobroma-systems.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c    | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c | 44 +------------------------------------------
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> index 99e36be..b3f6e52 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> #include <asm/fpsimd.h>
> #include <asm/signal32.h>
> #include <asm/vdso.h>
> +#include <asm/syscalls.h>
> 
> /*
>  * Do a signal return; undo the signal stack. These are aligned to 128-bit.
> @@ -148,9 +149,22 @@ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)
>    if (restore_sigframe(regs, frame))
>        goto badframe;
> 
> +
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM64_ILP32)
> +    if (is_ilp32_compat_task()) {
> +            /* For ILP32, we have a different stack_t (the ss_sp
> +           field will be only 32bit sized), which fits into
> +           the memory area reserved for the (larger) LP64
> +           stack_t and which we place into uc_stack: this
> +           implies padding after the ILP32 stack_t. */
> +            if (compat_restore_altstack((compat_stack_t*)&frame->uc.uc_stack))
> +                    goto badframe;
> +    } else
> +#endif
>    if (restore_altstack(&frame->uc.uc_stack))
>        goto badframe;
> 
> +
>    return regs->regs[0];
> 
> badframe:
> @@ -264,6 +278,11 @@ static int setup_rt_frame(int usig, struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *set,
>    __put_user_error(0, &frame->uc.uc_flags, err);
>    __put_user_error(NULL, &frame->uc.uc_link, err);
> 
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM64_ILP32)
> +    if (is_ilp32_compat_task())
> +        err |= __compat_save_altstack((compat_stack_t*)&frame->uc.uc_stack, regs->sp);
> +    else
> +#endif
>    err |= __save_altstack(&frame->uc.uc_stack, regs->sp);
>    err |= setup_sigframe(frame, regs, set);
>    if (err == 0) {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c
> index 3471f27..31f82ca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
> 
> /* Pointer in struct */
> #define sys_mount               compat_sys_mount
> +#define sys_sigaltstack         compat_sys_sigaltstack
> 
> /* NUMA */
> /* unsigned long bitmaps */
> @@ -122,49 +123,6 @@ asmlinkage long ilp32_sys_mq_notify(mqd_t mqdes, const struct sigevent __user *u
>    but need special handling due to padding for SIGEV_THREAD.  */
> #define sys_mq_notify        ilp32_sys_mq_notify
> 
> -
> -/* sigaltstack needs some special handling as the
> -   padding for stack_t might not be non-zero. */
> -long ilp32_sys_sigaltstack(const stack_t __user *uss_ptr,
> -               stack_t __user *uoss_ptr)
> -{
> -    stack_t uss, uoss;
> -    int ret;
> -    mm_segment_t seg;
> -
> -    if (uss_ptr) {
> -        if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uss_ptr, sizeof(*uss_ptr)))
> -            return -EFAULT;
> -        if (__get_user(uss.ss_sp, &uss_ptr->ss_sp) |
> -            __get_user(uss.ss_flags, &uss_ptr->ss_flags) |
> -            __get_user(uss.ss_size, &uss_ptr->ss_size))
> -            return -EFAULT;
> -        /* Zero extend the sp address and the size. */
> -        uss.ss_sp = (void *)(uintptr_t)(unsigned int)(uintptr_t)uss.ss_sp;
> -        uss.ss_size = (size_t)(unsigned int)uss.ss_size;
> -    }
> -    seg = get_fs();
> -    set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> -    /* Note we need to use uoss as we have changed the segment to the
> -       kernel one so passing an user one around is wrong. */
> -    ret = sys_sigaltstack((stack_t __force __user *) (uss_ptr ? &uss : NULL),
> -                  (stack_t __force __user *) &uoss);
> -    set_fs(seg);
> -    if (ret >= 0 && uoss_ptr)  {
> -        if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uoss_ptr, sizeof(stack_t)) ||
> -            __put_user(uoss.ss_sp, &uoss_ptr->ss_sp) ||
> -            __put_user(uoss.ss_flags, &uoss_ptr->ss_flags) ||
> -            __put_user(uoss.ss_size, &uoss_ptr->ss_size))
> -            ret = -EFAULT;
> -    }
> -    return ret;
> -}
> -
> -/* sigaltstack needs some special handling as the padding
> -   for stack_t might not be non-zero. */
> -#define sys_sigaltstack        ilp32_sys_sigaltstack
> -
> -
> #include <asm/syscalls.h>
> 
> #undef __SYSCALL
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 



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