[RFC PATCH 02/15] rseq: Remove broken uapi field layout on 32-bit little endian

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The rseq rseq_cs.ptr.{ptr32,padding} uapi endianness handling is
entirely wrong on 32-bit little endian: a preprocessor logic mistake
wrongly uses the big endian field layout on 32-bit little endian
architectures.

Fortunately, those ptr32 accessors were never used within the kernel,
and only meant as a convenience for user-space.

Remove those and only leave the "ptr64" union field, as this is the only
thing really needed to express the ABI. Document how 32-bit
architectures are meant to interact with this "ptr64" union field.

Fixes: ec9c82e03a74 ("rseq: uapi: Declare rseq_cs field as union, update includes")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@xxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/uapi/linux/rseq.h | 17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
index 9a402fdb60e9..31290f2424a7 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
@@ -105,22 +105,13 @@ struct rseq {
 	 * Read and set by the kernel. Set by user-space with single-copy
 	 * atomicity semantics. This field should only be updated by the
 	 * thread which registered this data structure. Aligned on 64-bit.
+	 *
+	 * 32-bit architectures should update the low order bits of the
+	 * rseq_cs.ptr64 field, leaving the high order bits initialized
+	 * to 0.
 	 */
 	union {
 		__u64 ptr64;
-#ifdef __LP64__
-		__u64 ptr;
-#else
-		struct {
-#if (defined(__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)) || defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
-			__u32 padding;		/* Initialized to zero. */
-			__u32 ptr32;
-#else /* LITTLE */
-			__u32 ptr32;
-			__u32 padding;		/* Initialized to zero. */
-#endif /* ENDIAN */
-		} ptr;
-#endif
 	} rseq_cs;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.17.1




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