On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:19:39PM +0000, Chen Jie wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi,
> In an o32 user land + n64 kernel, calling 'fanotify_mark' indirectly
> will always fail due to alignment[1]:
> syscall(_NR_fanotify_mark, fanotify_fd, flags, mask, dfd, pathname)
>
> The prototype of fanotify_mark is "fanotify_mark (int fanotify_fd,
> unsigned int flags, __u64 mask, int dfd, const char __user *
> pathname)", which has a 64bit argument.
>
> In the case of o32 user land + n64 kernel and indirect syscall:
> 1. User calls libc routine syscall(...), MIPS ABI enforce a padding
> word before argument 'mask' to make it 64bit-aligned. The padding word
> resides at a3 register.
> 2. Kernel fetches 4 32bit arguments from a0-a3, and then 4 32bit
> arguments from stack.
> 3. Kernel shifts arguments by one, then redirects to sys_32_fanotify_mark.
> 4. sys_32_fanotify_mark synthesizes the 64bit argument 'mask' by
> merge_64(a2, a3), note a2 is the padding word, so the synthesized
> argument is invalid.
>
> The syscall routine in libc doesn't know the prototype, so it can't do
> anything. It seems the bug of syscall handling code, any idea?
>
I can confirm the issue, however it is not specific to a n64 kernel.
Even with an o32 kernel the issue is present. I also have been able to
reproduce the issue on other architectures, like PowerPC.
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