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| author | Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com> | 2022-09-21 09:55:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2022-09-26 16:00:15 +0300 |
| commit | b6b1334c9510e162bd8ca0ae58403cafad9572f1 (patch) | |
| tree | ceea5be25758dd56fe846b0f8a4d80b5bd6d5c5a /arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | |
| parent | c2e7a19827eec443a7cbe85e8d959052412d6dc3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b6b1334c9510e162bd8ca0ae58403cafad9572f1.tar.xz | |
powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation
Syscall #82 has been implemented for 32-bit platforms in a unique way on
powerpc systems. This hack will in effect guess whether the caller is
expecting new select semantics or old select semantics. It does so via a
guess, based off the first parameter. In new select, this parameter
represents the length of a user-memory array of file descriptors, and in
old select this is a pointer to an arguments structure.
The heuristic simply interprets sufficiently large values of its first
parameter as being a call to old select. The following is a discussion
on how this syscall should be handled.
As discussed in this thread, the existence of such a hack suggests that for
whatever powerpc binaries may predate glibc, it is most likely that they
would have taken use of the old select semantics. x86 and arm64 both
implement this syscall with oldselect semantics.
Remove the powerpc implementation, and update syscall.tbl to refer to emit
a reference to sys_old_select and compat_sys_old_select
for 32-bit binaries, in keeping with how other architectures support
syscall #82.
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/13737de5-0eb7-e881-9af0-163b0d29a1a0@csgroup.eu/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-12-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c index abc3fbb3c490..34e1ae88e15b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c @@ -63,23 +63,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap, unsigned long, addr, size_t, len, return do_mmap2(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, offset, PAGE_SHIFT); } -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 -/* - * Due to some executables calling the wrong select we sometimes - * get wrong args. This determines how the args are being passed - * (a single ptr to them all args passed) then calls - * sys_select() with the appropriate args. -- Cort - */ -int -ppc_select(int n, fd_set __user *inp, fd_set __user *outp, fd_set __user *exp, struct __kernel_old_timeval __user *tvp) -{ - if ((unsigned long)n >= 4096) - return sys_old_select((void __user *)n); - - return sys_select(n, inp, outp, exp, tvp); -} -#endif - #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 long ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality) { |