[PATCH v6 4/9] futex: Create get_robust_list2() syscall
From: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Date: 2025-11-22 05:51:24
Also in:
linux-kselftest, lkml
Subsystem:
futex subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Linus Torvalds
As in the original robust list interface, to pair with
set_robust_list2(), create a get_robust_list2() syscall with the
following signature:
get_robust_list2(int pid, void __user **head_ptr, unsigned int index,
unsigned int flags)
- `pid` sets with task's list should be returned. If is 0, it gets the
list of the calling task.
- `index` is the index of the list to get
- `flags` is unused but can be used for expanding the interface
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
---
For some reason I wasn't able to use put_user() for 32-bit lists.. it
kept corrupting the value due to wrong write size I believe.
copy_to_user() worked fine nonetheless.
---
kernel/futex/syscalls.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/futex/syscalls.c b/kernel/futex/syscalls.c
index 0b7fa88aa34c..f730d16632fc 100644
--- a/kernel/futex/syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/futex/syscalls.c@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static inline void __user *futex_task_robust_list(struct task_struct *p, bool co return p->robust_list; } -static void __user *futex_get_robust_list_common(int pid, bool compat) +static void __user *futex_get_robust_list_common(int pid, bool compat, int index) { struct task_struct *p = current; void __user *head;
@@ -75,7 +75,15 @@ static void __user *futex_get_robust_list_common(int pid, bool compat) if (!ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) goto err_unlock; - head = futex_task_robust_list(p, compat); + if (index >= 0) { + scoped_guard(mutex, &p->futex_exit_mutex) { + uintptr_t *rl = p->futex_robust_lists; + + head = rl ? (void __user *) rl[index] : NULL; + } + } else { + head = futex_task_robust_list(p, compat); + } up_read(&p->signal->exec_update_lock); put_task_struct(p);
@@ -99,7 +107,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(get_robust_list, int, pid, struct robust_list_head __user * __user *, head_ptr, size_t __user *, len_ptr) { - struct robust_list_head __user *head = futex_get_robust_list_common(pid, false); + struct robust_list_head __user *head = futex_get_robust_list_common(pid, false, -1); if (IS_ERR(head)) return PTR_ERR(head);
@@ -150,6 +158,51 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(set_robust_list2, struct robust_list_head *, head, unsigned int, return -EINVAL; } +SYSCALL_DEFINE4(get_robust_list2, int, pid, + void __user * __user *, head_ptr, + unsigned int, index, unsigned int, flags) +{ + void __user *entry_ptr; + uintptr_t entry; + + if (index >= FUTEX_ROBUST_LISTS_PER_USER) + return -EINVAL; + + if (flags) + return -EINVAL; + + /* + * The first two indexes are reserved for the kernel to be used with the + * legacy syscall, so we hide them from userspace. + * + * We map [0, FUTEX_ROBUST_LISTS_PER_USER) to + * [FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST2_IDX, FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST2_MAX_IDX) + */ + index += FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST2_IDX; + + entry_ptr = futex_get_robust_list_common(pid, false, index); + if (IS_ERR(entry_ptr)) + return PTR_ERR(entry_ptr); + + entry = (uintptr_t) entry_ptr; + + if (entry & FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST_ENTRY_32BIT) { + entry &= FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST_ENTRY_MASK; + + if (copy_to_user(head_ptr, &entry, sizeof(u32))) + return -EFAULT; + + return 0; + } else { + struct robust_list_head *head; + + entry &= FUTEX_ROBUST_LIST_ENTRY_MASK; + head = (__force struct robust_list_head __user *)entry; + + return put_user(head, head_ptr); + } +} + long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout, u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3) {
@@ -524,7 +577,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(get_robust_list, int, pid, compat_uptr_t __user *, head_ptr, compat_size_t __user *, len_ptr) { - struct robust_list_head32 __user *head = futex_get_robust_list_common(pid, true); + struct robust_list_head32 __user *head = futex_get_robust_list_common(pid, true, -1); if (IS_ERR(head)) return PTR_ERR(head);
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2.52.0