[PATCH v3 17/31] arm64: System calls handling
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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2012-09-07 19:43:51
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On Friday 07 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+/* + * sys_execve() executes a new program. + */ +asmlinkage long sys_execve(const char __user *filenamei, + const char __user *const __user *argv, + const char __user *const __user *envp, + struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + long error; + char * filename; + + filename = getname(filenamei); + error = PTR_ERR(filename); + if (IS_ERR(filename)) + goto out; + error = do_execve(filename, argv, envp, regs); + putname(filename); +out: + return error; +} + +int kernel_execve(const char *filename, + const char *const argv[], + const char *const envp[]) +{ + struct pt_regs regs; + int ret; + + memset(®s, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); + ret = do_execve(filename, + (const char __user *const __user *)argv, + (const char __user *const __user *)envp, ®s); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; + + /* + * Save argc to the register structure for userspace. + */ + regs.regs[0] = ret; + + /* + * We were successful. We won't be returning to our caller, but + * instead to user space by manipulating the kernel stack. + */ + asm( "add x0, %0, %1\n\t" + "mov x1, %2\n\t" + "mov x2, %3\n\t" + "bl memmove\n\t" /* copy regs to top of stack */ + "mov x27, #0\n\t" /* not a syscall */ + "mov x28, %0\n\t" /* thread structure */ + "mov sp, x0\n\t" /* reposition stack pointer */ + "b ret_to_user" + : + : "r" (current_thread_info()), + "Ir" (THREAD_START_SP - sizeof(regs)), + "r" (®s), + "Ir" (sizeof(regs)) + : "x0", "x1", "x2", "x27", "x28", "x30", "memory"); + + out: + return ret; +}
Al Viro is currently reworking this code across all architectures, please have a look at https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/signal.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/execve2
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_execve);
You certainly don't need to export it. Arnd