kernel/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h, branch linux-5.1.y

syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_set_arguments() args

2019-04-05T13:27:23Z

After removing the start and count arguments of syscall_get_arguments() it seems reasonable to remove them from syscall_set_arguments(). Note, as of today, there are no users of syscall_set_arguments(). But we are told that there will be soon. But for now, at least make it consistent with syscall_get_arguments(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327222014.GA32540@altlinux.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Dave Martin Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Max Filippov # For xtensa changes Acked-by: Will Deacon # For the arm64 bits Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner # for x86 Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args

2019-04-05T13:26:43Z

At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only 0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6 arguments of a system call. This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace, ftrace and perf. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Dave Martin Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Paul Burton # MIPS parts Acked-by: Max Filippov # For xtensa changes Acked-by: Will Deacon # For the arm64 bits Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner # for x86 Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64

2018-04-05T14:59:38Z

Removing CONFIG_SYSCALL_PTREGS from arch/x86/Kconfig and simply selecting ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER unconditionally on x86-64 allows us to simplify several codepaths. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405095307.3730-7-linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls

2018-04-05T14:59:26Z

Let's make use of ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y on pure 64-bit x86-64 systems: Each syscall defines a stub which takes struct pt_regs as its only argument. It decodes just those parameters it needs, e.g: asmlinkage long sys_xyzzy(const struct pt_regs *regs) { return SyS_xyzzy(regs->di, regs->si, regs->dx); } This approach avoids leaking random user-provided register content down the call chain. For example, for sys_recv() which is a 4-parameter syscall, the assembly now is (in slightly reordered fashion): : callq <__fentry__> /* decode regs->di, ->si, ->dx and ->r10 */ mov 0x70(%rdi),%rdi mov 0x68(%rdi),%rsi mov 0x60(%rdi),%rdx mov 0x38(%rdi),%rcx [ SyS_recv() is automatically inlined by the compiler, as it is not [yet] used anywhere else ] /* clear %r9 and %r8, the 5th and 6th args */ xor %r9d,%r9d xor %r8d,%r8d /* do the actual work */ callq __sys_recvfrom /* cleanup and return */ cltq retq The only valid place in an x86-64 kernel which rightfully calls a syscall function on its own -- vsyscall -- needs to be modified to pass struct pt_regs onwards as well. To keep the syscall table generation working independent of SYSCALL_PTREGS being enabled, the stubs are named the same as the "original" syscall stubs, i.e. sys_*(). This patch is based on an original proof-of-concept | From: Linus Torvalds | Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds and was split up and heavily modified by me, in particular to base it on ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER, to limit it to 64-bit-only for the time being, and to update the vsyscall to the new calling convention. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405095307.3730-4-linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info

2018-01-30T14:30:36Z

The TS_COMPAT bit is very hot and is accessed from code paths that mostly also touch thread_info::flags. Move it into struct thread_info to improve cache locality. The only reason it was in thread_struct is that there was a brief period during which arch-specific fields were not allowed in struct thread_info. Linus suggested further changing: ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); to: if (unlikely(ti->status & (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED))) ti->status &= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED); on the theory that frequently dirtying the cacheline even in pure 64-bit code that never needs to modify status hurts performance. That could be a reasonable followup patch, but I suspect it matters less on top of this patch. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Kernel Hardening Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/03148bcc1b217100e6e8ecf6a5468c45cf4304b6.1517164461.git.luto@kernel.org

x86/asm: Move the thread_info::status field to thread_struct

2016-09-15T06:25:12Z

Because sched.h and thread_info.h are a tangled mess, I turned in_compat_syscall() into a macro. If we had current_thread_struct() or similar and we could use it from thread_info.h, then this would be a bit cleaner. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ccc8a1b2f41f9c264a41f771bb4a6539a642ad72.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/ptrace: Stop setting TS_COMPAT in ptrace code

2016-07-27T09:09:43Z

Setting TS_COMPAT in ptrace is wrong: if we happen to do it during syscall entry, then we'll confuse seccomp and audit. (The former isn't a security problem: seccomp is currently entirely insecure if a malicious ptracer is attached.) As a minimal fix, this patch adds a new flag TS_I386_REGS_POKED that handles the ptrace special case. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pedro Alves Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5383ebed38b39fa37462139e337aff7f2314d1ca.1469599803.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/syscalls: Give sys_call_ptr_t a useful type

2015-10-09T07:41:08Z

Syscalls are asmlinkage functions (on 32-bit kernels), take six args of type unsigned long, and return long. Note that uml could probably be slightly cleaned up on top of this patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d3ecc4a169388d47009175408b2961961744e6f.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/entry/syscalls: Move syscall table declarations into asm/syscalls.h

2015-10-09T07:41:08Z

The header was missing some compat declarations. Also make sys_call_ptr_t have a consistent type. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3166aaff0fb43897998fcb6ef92991533f8c5c6c.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations

2014-03-20T14:11:59Z

The syscall.h headers were including linux/audit.h but really only needed the uapi/linux/audit.h to get the requisite defines. Switch to the uapi headers. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org