kernel/arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

riscv: fix minor typo in syscall.h comment

2026-01-26T04:08:59Z

Some developers may be confused because RISC-V does not have a register named r0. Also, orig_r0 is not available in pt_regs structure, which is specific to riscv. So we had better fix this minor typo. Signed-off-by: Austin Kim Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aW3Z4zTBvGJpk7a7@adminpc-PowerEdge-R7525 Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

syscall.h: introduce syscall_set_nr()

2025-05-12T00:48:15Z

Similar to syscall_set_arguments() that complements syscall_get_arguments(), introduce syscall_set_nr() that complements syscall_get_nr(). syscall_set_nr() is going to be needed along with syscall_set_arguments() on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303112020.GD24170@strace.io Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Acked-by: Helge Deller # parisc Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki # mips Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: anton ivanov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Zankel Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Davide Berardi Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Naveen N Rao Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Renzo Davoi Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russel King Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

syscall.h: add syscall_set_arguments()

2025-05-12T00:48:15Z

This function is going to be needed on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API. This partially reverts commit 7962c2eddbfe ("arch: remove unused function syscall_set_arguments()") by reusing some of old syscall_set_arguments() implementations. [nathan@kernel.org: fix compile time fortify checks] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408213131.GA2872426@ax162 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303112009.GC24170@strace.io Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Acked-by: Helge Deller # parisc Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki [mips] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: anton ivanov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Zankel Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Davide Berardi Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Naveen N Rao Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Renzo Davoi Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russel King Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

riscv: Avoid fortify warning in syscall_get_arguments()

2025-04-10T17:11:57Z

When building with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and W=1, there is a warning because of the memcpy() in syscall_get_arguments(): In file included from include/linux/string.h:392, from include/linux/bitmap.h:13, from include/linux/cpumask.h:12, from arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h:55, from include/linux/sched.h:13, from kernel/ptrace.c:13: In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk', inlined from 'syscall_get_arguments.isra' at arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h:66:2: include/linux/fortify-string.h:580:25: error: call to '__read_overflow2_field' declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 580 | __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors The fortified memcpy() routine enforces that the source is not overread and the destination is not overwritten if the size of either field and the size of the copy are known at compile time. The memcpy() in syscall_get_arguments() intentionally overreads from a1 to a5 in 'struct pt_regs' but this is bigger than the size of a1. Normally, this could be solved by wrapping a1 through a5 with struct_group() but there was already a struct_group() applied to these members in commit bba547810c66 ("riscv: tracing: Fix __write_overflow_field in ftrace_partial_regs()"). Just avoid memcpy() altogether and write the copying of args from regs manually, which clears up the warning at the expense of three extra lines of code. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin Fixes: e2c0cdfba7f6 ("RISC-V: User-facing API") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409-riscv-avoid-fortify-warning-syscall_get_arguments-v1-1-7853436d4755@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: Implement syscall wrappers

2023-08-23T21:16:36Z

Commit f0bddf50586d ("riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry") moved syscall handling to C code, which exposed function pointer type mismatches that trip fine-grained forward-edge Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checks as syscall handlers are all called through the same syscall_t pointer type. To fix the type mismatches, implement pt_regs based syscall wrappers similarly to x86 and arm64. This patch is based on arm64 syscall wrappers added in commit 4378a7d4be30 ("arm64: implement syscall wrappers"), where the main goal was to minimize the risk of userspace-controlled values being used under speculation. This may be a concern for riscv in future as well. Following other architectures, the syscall wrappers generate three functions for each syscall; __riscv_sys_ takes a pt_regs pointer and extracts arguments from registers, __se_sys_ is a sign-extension wrapper that casts the long arguments to the correct types for the real syscall implementation, which is named __do_sys_. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230710183544.999540-9-samitolvanen@google.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

Merge patch series "RISC-V Hardware Probing User Interface"

2023-04-19T02:49:51Z

Evan Green says: There's been a bunch of off-list discussions about this, including at Plumbers. The original plan was to do something involving providing an ISA string to userspace, but ISA strings just aren't sufficient for a stable ABI any more: in order to parse an ISA string users need the version of the specifications that the string is written to, the version of each extension (sometimes at a finer granularity than the RISC-V releases/versions encode), and the expected use case for the ISA string (ie, is it a U-mode or M-mode string). That's a lot of complexity to try and keep ABI compatible and it's probably going to continue to grow, as even if there's no more complexity in the specifications we'll have to deal with the various ISA string parsing oddities that end up all over userspace. Instead this patch set takes a very different approach and provides a set of key/value pairs that encode various bits about the system. The big advantage here is that we can clearly define what these mean so we can ensure ABI stability, but it also allows us to encode information that's unlikely to ever appear in an ISA string (see the misaligned access performance, for example). The resulting interface looks a lot like what arm64 and x86 do, and will hopefully fit well into something like ACPI in the future. The actual user interface is a syscall, with a vDSO function in front of it. The vDSO function can answer some queries without a syscall at all, and falls back to the syscall for cases it doesn't have answers to. Currently we prepopulate it with an array of answers for all keys and a CPU set of "all CPUs". This can be adjusted as necessary to provide fast answers to the most common queries. An example series in glibc exposing this syscall and using it in an ifunc selector for memcpy can be found at [1]. I was asked about the performance delta between this and something like sysfs. I created a small test program and ran it on a Nezha D1 Allwinner board. Doing each operation 100000 times and dividing, these operations take the following amount of time: - open()+read()+close() of /sys/kernel/cpu_byteorder: 3.8us - access("/sys/kernel/cpu_byteorder", R_OK): 1.3us - riscv_hwprobe() vDSO and syscall: .0094us - riscv_hwprobe() vDSO with no syscall: 0.0091us These numbers get farther apart if we query multiple keys, as sysfs will scale linearly with the number of keys, where the dedicated syscall stays the same. To frame these numbers, I also did a tight fork/exec/wait loop, which I measured as 4.8ms. So doing 4 open/read/close operations is a delta of about 0.3%, versus a single vDSO call is a delta of essentially zero. [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/glibc/list/?series=343050 * b4-shazam-merge: RISC-V: Add hwprobe vDSO function and data selftests: Test the new RISC-V hwprobe interface RISC-V: hwprobe: Support probing of misaligned access performance RISC-V: hwprobe: Add support for RISCV_HWPROBE_BASE_BEHAVIOR_IMA RISC-V: Add a syscall for HW probing RISC-V: Move struct riscv_cpuinfo to new header Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-1-evan@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

RISC-V: Add a syscall for HW probing

2023-04-18T22:48:14Z

We don't have enough space for these all in ELF_HWCAP{,2} and there's no system call that quite does this, so let's just provide an arch-specific one to probe for hardware capabilities. This currently just provides m{arch,imp,vendor}id, but with the key-value pairs we can pass more in the future. Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt Signed-off-by: Evan Green Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-3-evan@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry

2023-03-23T15:47:00Z

This patch converts riscv to use the generic entry infrastructure from kernel/entry/*. The generic entry makes maintainers' work easier and codes more elegant. Here are the changes: - More clear entry.S with handle_exception and ret_from_exception - Get rid of complex custom signal implementation - Move syscall procedure from assembly to C, which is much more readable. - Connect ret_from_fork & ret_from_kernel_thread to generic entry. - Wrap with irqentry_enter/exit and syscall_enter/exit_from_user_mode - Use the standard preemption code instead of custom Suggested-by: Huacai Chen Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel Tested-by: Yipeng Zou Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Cc: Ben Hutchings Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222033021.983168-5-guoren@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: compat: syscall: Add compat_sys_call_table implementation

2022-04-26T20:36:25Z

Implement compat sys_call_table and some system call functions: truncate64, ftruncate64, fallocate, pread64, pwrite64, sync_file_range, readahead, fadvise64_64 which need argument translation. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405071314.3225832-12-guoren@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2021-11-10T19:22:03Z

Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann: "This is a single cleanup from Peter Collingbourne, removing some dead code" * tag 'asm-generic-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: arch: remove unused function syscall_set_arguments()