Re: PROBLEM: fanotify_mark EFAULT on x86

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On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 15:50, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue 24-11-20 09:45:07, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:46:51PM +0100, Paweł Jasiak wrote:
> > > On 23/11/20, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > OK, with a help of Boris Petkov I think I have a fix that looks correct
> > > > (attach). Can you please try whether it works for you? Thanks!
> > >
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>
> Thanks for checking! I didn't realize I needed to change the ifdefs as well
> (I missed that bit in 121b32a58a3a). So do I understand correctly that
> whenever the kernel is 64-bit, 64-bit syscall args (e.g. defined as u64) are
> passed just fine regardless of whether the userspace is 32-bit or not?
>
> Also how about other 32-bit archs? Because I now realized that
> CONFIG_COMPAT as well as the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6() is also utilized by
> other 32-bit archs (I can see a reference to compat_sys_fanotify_mark e.g.
> in sparc, powerpc, and other args). So I probably need to actually keep
> that for other archs but do the modification only for x86, don't I?
>
> So something like attached patch?

I have tested the attached patch on i386 and qemu_i386 and the reported problem
got fixed.

Test links,
https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1985236#L1176
https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1985238#L801


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