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[RFC,1/3] powerpc: Don't force ENOSYS as error on syscall fail

Message ID 1423468516-8688-2-git-send-email-bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Michael Ellerman
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Bogdan Purcareata Feb. 9, 2015, 7:55 a.m. UTC
In certain scenarios - e.g. seccomp filtering with ERRNO as default action -
the system call fails for other reasons than the syscall not being available.
The seccomp filter can be configured to store a user-defined error code on
return from a blacklisted syscall.

The RFC is this: are there currently any user-space scenarios where it is
required that the system call return ENOSYS as error code on failure, no matter
the circumstances? I don't want to break userspace requirements. I have not
added code to force this error code in situations different than
secure_computing failure, in order to keep overhead at a minimum.

Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Purcareata Bogdan Feb. 9, 2015, 8:56 a.m. UTC | #1
Obvious mistake on my behalf to send the patch with lines commented out. 
I will fix it in v2.

On 09.02.2015 09:55, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> In certain scenarios - e.g. seccomp filtering with ERRNO as default action -
> the system call fails for other reasons than the syscall not being available.
> The seccomp filter can be configured to store a user-defined error code on
> return from a blacklisted syscall.
>
> The RFC is this: are there currently any user-space scenarios where it is
> required that the system call return ENOSYS as error code on failure, no matter
> the circumstances? I don't want to break userspace requirements. I have not
> added code to force this error code in situations different than
> secure_computing failure, in order to keep overhead at a minimum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 ++-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> index 59848e5..52e48dd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
>   	b	1b
>   #endif  /* CONFIG_44x */
>
> -66:	li	r3,-ENOSYS
> +66:
> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>   	b	ret_from_syscall
>
>   	.globl	ret_from_fork
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> index e6bfe8e..80db02e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ syscall_dotrace:
>   	b	.Lsyscall_dotrace_cont
>
>   syscall_enosys:
> -	li	r3,-ENOSYS
> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>   	b	syscall_exit
>   	
>   syscall_exit_work:
>
Michael Ellerman Feb. 11, 2015, 3:04 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 07:55 +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> In certain scenarios - e.g. seccomp filtering with ERRNO as default action -
> the system call fails for other reasons than the syscall not being available.
> The seccomp filter can be configured to store a user-defined error code on
> return from a blacklisted syscall.
> 
> The RFC is this: are there currently any user-space scenarios where it is
> required that the system call return ENOSYS as error code on failure, no matter
> the circumstances? I don't want to break userspace requirements. I have not
> added code to force this error code in situations different than
> secure_computing failure, in order to keep overhead at a minimum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 ++-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> index 59848e5..52e48dd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
>  	b	1b
>  #endif  /* CONFIG_44x */
>  
> -66:	li	r3,-ENOSYS
> +66:
> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>  	b	ret_from_syscall
>  
>  	.globl	ret_from_fork
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> index e6bfe8e..80db02e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ syscall_dotrace:
>  	b	.Lsyscall_dotrace_cont
>  
>  syscall_enosys:
> -	li	r3,-ENOSYS
> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>  	b	syscall_exit

So what happens if you call this with a syscall number that's out of bounds?

cheers
Purcareata Bogdan Feb. 11, 2015, 7:59 a.m. UTC | #3
On 11.02.2015 05:04, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 07:55 +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
>> In certain scenarios - e.g. seccomp filtering with ERRNO as default action -
>> the system call fails for other reasons than the syscall not being available.
>> The seccomp filter can be configured to store a user-defined error code on
>> return from a blacklisted syscall.
>>
>> The RFC is this: are there currently any user-space scenarios where it is
>> required that the system call return ENOSYS as error code on failure, no matter
>> the circumstances? I don't want to break userspace requirements. I have not
>> added code to force this error code in situations different than
>> secure_computing failure, in order to keep overhead at a minimum.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@freescale.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 ++-
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>> index 59848e5..52e48dd 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>> @@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
>>   	b	1b
>>   #endif  /* CONFIG_44x */
>>
>> -66:	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>> +66:
>> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>>   	b	ret_from_syscall
>>
>>   	.globl	ret_from_fork
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
>> index e6bfe8e..80db02e 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
>> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ syscall_dotrace:
>>   	b	.Lsyscall_dotrace_cont
>>
>>   syscall_enosys:
>> -	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>> +#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
>>   	b	syscall_exit
>
> So what happens if you call this with a syscall number that's out of bounds?

As far as my current understanding goes, the call will return with -1 
with a errno that's undefined (or I've not seen it be defined anywhere).

I've thought more about this, and I guess the best option would be to 
move setting -ENOSYS as errno from the syscall entry assembly to 
do_syscall_trace_enter (as opposed to eliminating it at all). I was a 
little reluctant to do this at first in order to keep overhead to a 
minimum, but it's certainly not an option to change behavior if the 
syscall number is out of bounds.

v2 to come shortly.

Thanks,
Bogdan P.
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 59848e5..52e48dd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -425,7 +425,8 @@  END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX)
 	b	1b
 #endif  /* CONFIG_44x */
 
-66:	li	r3,-ENOSYS
+66:
+#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
 	b	ret_from_syscall
 
 	.globl	ret_from_fork
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index e6bfe8e..80db02e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@  syscall_dotrace:
 	b	.Lsyscall_dotrace_cont
 
 syscall_enosys:
-	li	r3,-ENOSYS
+#	li	r3,-ENOSYS
 	b	syscall_exit
 	
 syscall_exit_work: