Thread (53 messages) 53 messages, 4 authors, 2018-06-20

[PATCHv3 08/19] arm64: convert raw syscall invocation to C

From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2018-06-19 14:21:30
Also in: linux-fsdevel

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:02:59PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b463b962d597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+
+long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs);
+
+typedef long (*syscall_fn_t)(unsigned long, unsigned long,
+			     unsigned long, unsigned long,
+			     unsigned long, unsigned long);
+
+static void __invoke_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, syscall_fn_t syscall_fn)
+{
+	regs->regs[0] = syscall_fn(regs->regs[0], regs->regs[1],
+				   regs->regs[2], regs->regs[3],
+				   regs->regs[4], regs->regs[5]);
+}
+
+asmlinkage void invoke_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int scno,
+			       unsigned int sc_nr,
+			       syscall_fn_t syscall_table[])
+{
+	if (scno < sc_nr) {
+		syscall_fn_t syscall_fn;
+		syscall_fn = syscall_table[array_index_nospec(scno, sc_nr)];
+		__invoke_syscall(regs, syscall_fn);
+	} else {
+		regs->regs[0] = do_ni_syscall(regs);
+	}
+}
While reviewing the subsequent patch, it crossed my mind that we no
longer have any callers to do_ni_syscall() outside this file. Can we not
more it here and have a similar implementation to __invoke_syscall() for
consistency, i.e. set regs->regs[0].

-- 
Catalin
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