Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?

[Roland McGrath]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:30 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is needed to make a regset variable-sized?  Just declaring that it
> may change in size in the future, or does one need a length field at the
> top (I would personally have expected that both notes and ptrace would
> have out-of-band methods for getting the size?)

ELF notes do have a size field, so core files are self-explanatory.  There
is no ptrace interface to directly interrogate the regset details (one
could be added).  But the PTRACE_GETREGSET interface is to accept an upper
bound and yield the actual size filled in (which might be less than the
regset's size if the user-supplied buffer was smaller).  So in practice, a
caller can just use a buffer that's sure to be large enough, and then look
at iov_len for the actual size delivered.  (And nobody has yet complained
about this for xstate, though that might just be that nobody is really
using it.)


Thanks,
Roland
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