Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/syscall: sign-extend system calls on entry to int | Date | Fri, 14 May 2021 18:10:12 -0700 |
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From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@zytor.com>
Right now, *some* code will treat e.g. 0x00000001_00000001 as a system call and some will not. Some of the code, notably in ptrace and seccomp, will treat 0x00000001_ffffffff as a system call and some will not.
This is visible to the user: for example, the syscall_numbering_64 test fails if run under strace, because as strace uses ptrace, it ends up clobbering the upper half of the 64-bit system call number.
The arch-independent code all assumes that a system call is "int" that the value -1 specifically and not just any negative value is used for a non-system call. This is the case on x86 as well when arch-independent code is involved. The arch-independent API is defined/documented (but not *implemented*!) in <asm-generic/syscall.h>.
This is an ABI change, but is in fact a revert to the original x86-64 ABI. The original assembly entry code would zero-extend the system call number; this patch uses sign extend to be explicit that this is treated as a signed number (although in practice it makes no difference, of course) and to avoid people getting the idea of "optimizing" it, as has happened on at least two(!) separate occasions.
Do not store the extended value into regs->orig_ax, however: on x86-64, the ABI is that the callee is responsible for extending parameters, so only examining the lower 32 bits is fully consistent with any "int" argument to any system call, e.g. regs->di for write(2). The full value of %rax on entry to the kernel is thus still available.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> --- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index 1d9db15fdc69..85f04ea0e368 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe, SYM_L_GLOBAL) /* IRQs are off. */ movq %rsp, %rdi - movq %rax, %rsi + movslq %eax, %rsi call do_syscall_64 /* returns with IRQs disabled */ /* -- 2.31.1
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