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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-03-15 13:13:38 -0400
commit48b25c43e6eebb6c0edf72935e8720385beca76b (patch)
treed1c774a79ef5a8373b093479c3dabe9bf16aec07 /include
parentfde7d9049e55ab85a390be7f415d74c9f62dd0f9 (diff)
[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls. However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC syscalls do not do this. semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth argument, instead of the fourth argument itself. msgsnd(), msgrcv() and shmat() expect arguments in different order. This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc, s390, and mips). No actual semantics are changed for those architectures, and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c. Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific compat layer. In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64 mode is assumed, since that's what the <asm-generic> headers expect. The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were not being properly handled. Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compat.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 7e05fcee75a1..35c2dbf2448a 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct compat_sysinfo;
224struct compat_sysctl_args; 224struct compat_sysctl_args;
225struct compat_kexec_segment; 225struct compat_kexec_segment;
226struct compat_mq_attr; 226struct compat_mq_attr;
227struct compat_msgbuf;
227 228
228extern void compat_exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr); 229extern void compat_exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr);
229 230
@@ -234,13 +235,22 @@ asmlinkage long
234compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __user *head_ptr, 235compat_sys_get_robust_list(int pid, compat_uptr_t __user *head_ptr,
235 compat_size_t __user *len_ptr); 236 compat_size_t __user *len_ptr);
236 237
238#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
237long compat_sys_semctl(int first, int second, int third, void __user *uptr); 239long compat_sys_semctl(int first, int second, int third, void __user *uptr);
238long compat_sys_msgsnd(int first, int second, int third, void __user *uptr); 240long compat_sys_msgsnd(int first, int second, int third, void __user *uptr);
239long compat_sys_msgrcv(int first, int second, int msgtyp, int third, 241long compat_sys_msgrcv(int first, int second, int msgtyp, int third,
240 int version, void __user *uptr); 242 int version, void __user *uptr);
241long compat_sys_msgctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr);
242long compat_sys_shmat(int first, int second, compat_uptr_t third, int version, 243long compat_sys_shmat(int first, int second, compat_uptr_t third, int version,
243 void __user *uptr); 244 void __user *uptr);
245#else
246long compat_sys_semctl(int semid, int semnum, int cmd, int arg);
247long compat_sys_msgsnd(int msqid, struct compat_msgbuf __user *msgp,
248 size_t msgsz, int msgflg);
249long compat_sys_msgrcv(int msqid, struct compat_msgbuf __user *msgp,
250 size_t msgsz, long msgtyp, int msgflg);
251long compat_sys_shmat(int shmid, compat_uptr_t shmaddr, int shmflg);
252#endif
253long compat_sys_msgctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr);
244long compat_sys_shmctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr); 254long compat_sys_shmctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr);
245long compat_sys_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf __user *tsems, 255long compat_sys_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf __user *tsems,
246 unsigned nsems, const struct compat_timespec __user *timeout); 256 unsigned nsems, const struct compat_timespec __user *timeout);