On 02/16/2012 07:53 PM, Will Drewry wrote:
>
> An earlier change Roland had prodded me toward was adding a
> syscall_get_arch() call to asm/syscall.h which returned the
> appropriate audit arch value for the current calling convention. I
> hate to suggest this, but should I go ahead and wire that up for x86
> now, make it a dependency for HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER (and officially
> part of asm/syscall.h) then let it trickle into existence? Maybe
> something like:
>
... and we have been talking about making a regset and export it to
ptrace and core dumps, too.
> static inline int syscall_get_arch(struct task_struct *task, struct
> pt_regs *regs)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> if (task_thread_info(task)->status & TS_COMPAT)
> return AUDIT_ARCH_I386;
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> return AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64;
> #else
> return AUDIT_ARCH_I386;
> #endif
> }
>
In this case it could be is_compat_task().
> There would be no other callers, though, because everywhere AUDIT_ARCH
> is used it is hardcoded as appropriate. Then when x32 comes along, it
> can figure out where it belongs using tif status and/or regs.
For x32 you have the option of introducing a new value or relying on bit
30 in eax (and AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64). The latter is more natural, probably.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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