Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?

From	"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?
Date	2017-03-14 04:00 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 08:39:55PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
[...]
> > Is there any progress with this (or any alternative) solution?
> >
> > I see the kernel side has changed a bit, and the strace part
> > is in a better shape than 5 years ago (although I'm biased of course),
> > but I don't see any kernel interface that would allow strace to reliably
> > recognize this 0x80 case.
> 
> I am strongly opposed to fudging registers to half-arsedly slightly
> improve the epicly crappy ptrace(2) interface for syscalls.
> 
> To fix this right, please just add PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO or similar
> to, in one shot, read out all the syscall details.  This means: arch,
> no, arg0..arg5, and *whether it's entry or exit*.  I propose returning
> this structure:
> 
> struct ptrace_syscall_info {
>   u8 op;  /* 0 for entry, 1 for exit */
>   u8 pad0;
>   u16 pad1;
>   u32 pad2;
>   union {
>     struct seccomp_data syscall_entry;
>     s64 syscall_exit_retval;
>   };
> };
> 
> because struct seccomp_data already gets this right.  There's plenty
> of opportunity to fine-tune this.  Now it works on all architectures.

Unfortunately, the API is missing.

Unlike syscall_get_nr(), syscall_get_arch() works with the current task
only so there is no API to get the arch identifier for the given task
that would work on all architectures.


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ldv

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Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!? "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-03-09 01:00 +0100
  Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!? Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> - 2017-03-09 05:50 +0100
    Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!? "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> - 2017-03-14 04:00 +0100

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