Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 8 authors, 2010-03-28

[C/R ARM][PATCH 2/3] ARM: Add the eclone system call

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2010-03-23 23:57:08
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:06:04PM -0400, Christoffer Dall wrote:
In addition to doing everything that clone() system call does, the
eclone() system call:
Some comments...
+sys_eclone_wrapper:
+		add	ip, sp, #S_OFF
+		str	ip, [sp, #0]
+		b	sys_eclone
+ENDPROC(sys_eclone_wrapper)
I'm curious why, if you want the entire set of registers, you don't just
do:
		add	r0, sp, #S_OFF
		b	sys_eclone

and load the syscall arguments out of regs->ARM_foo.  This avoids the need
for additional stores.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
 sys_sigreturn_wrapper:
 		add	r0, sp, #S_OFF
 		b	sys_sigreturn
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
index ae4027b..fd8199d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c
@@ -183,6 +183,45 @@ asmlinkage int sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp,
 	return do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, regs, 0, parent_tidptr, child_tidptr);
 }
 
+asmlinkage int sys_eclone(unsigned flags_low, struct clone_args __user *uca,
+			  int args_size, pid_t __user *pids,
+			  struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	int rc;
+	struct clone_args kca;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int __user *parent_tidp;
+	int __user *child_tidp;
+	unsigned long __user stack;
__user on an integer type doesn't make any sense; integer types do not
have address spaces.
+	unsigned long stack_size;
+
+	rc = fetch_clone_args_from_user(uca, args_size, &kca);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
+	/*
+	 * TODO: Convert 'clone-flags' to 64-bits on all architectures.
+	 * TODO: When ->clone_flags_high is non-zero, copy it in to the
+	 * 	 higher word(s) of 'flags':
+	 *
+	 * 		flags = (kca.clone_flags_high << 32) | flags_low;
+	 */
+	flags = flags_low;
+	parent_tidp = (int *)(unsigned long)kca.parent_tid_ptr;
+	child_tidp = (int *)(unsigned long)kca.child_tid_ptr;
This will produce sparse errors.  Is there a reason why 'clone_args'
tid pointers aren't already pointers marked with __user ?
+
+	stack_size = (unsigned long)kca.child_stack_size;
Shouldn't this already be of integer type?
+	if (stack_size)
+		return -EINVAL;
So the stack must have a zero size?  Is this missing a '!' ?
+
+	stack = (unsigned long)kca.child_stack;
+	if (!stack)
+		stack = regs->ARM_sp;
+
+	return do_fork_with_pids(flags, stack, regs, stack_size, parent_tidp,
+				child_tidp, kca.nr_pids, pids);
Hmm, so let me get this syscall interface right.  We have some arguments
passed in registers and others via a (variable sized?) structure.  It seems
really weird to have, eg, a pointer to the pids and the number of pids
passed in two separate ways.

The grouping between what's passed in registers and via this clone_args
structure seems to be random.  Can it be sanitized?
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