On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:48 PM Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:13 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > I'd rather keep it in common code as that allows all the low-level
> > exec stuff to be marked static, and avoid us growing new pointless
> > compat variants through copy and paste.
> > smart compiler to d
> >
> > > I don't really understand
> > > the comment, why can't this just use this?
> >
> > That errors out with:
> >
> > ld: arch/x86/entry/syscall_x32.o:(.rodata+0x1040): undefined reference to
> > `__x32_sys_execve'
> > ld: arch/x86/entry/syscall_x32.o:(.rodata+0x1108): undefined reference to
> > `__x32_sys_execveat'
> > make: *** [Makefile:1139: vmlinux] Error 1
>
> I think I have a fix for this, by modifying the syscall wrappers to
> add an alias for the __x32 variant to the native __x64_sys_foo().
> I'll get back to you with a patch.
Do we actually need the __x32 prefix any more, or could we just
change all x32 specific calls to use __x64_compat_sys_foo()?
Arnd
