Re: [PATCH V3] powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()

From: Paul Moore
Date: Mon Dec 08 2014 - 14:16:10 EST


On Monday, December 08, 2014 12:59:32 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Since both ppc and ppc64 have LE variants which are now reported by uname,
> add that flag (__AUDIT_ARCH_LE) to syscall_get_arch() and add
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC*LE variants.
>
> Without this, perf trace and auditctl fail.
>
> Mainline kernel reports ppc64le (per a058801) but there is no matching
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE.
>
> Since 32-bit PPC LE is not supported, throw a compiler error rather than
> return a bogus architecture to audit.
>
> See:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-August/msg00082.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-December/msg00004.html
>
> v2 -> v3:
> Throw a compiler error on 32-bit LE.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> Added ";" at the end of the #ifdef-protected line so it actually compiles
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 7 +++++++
> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Looks reasonable to me from an audit perspective, but I'll let the ppc folks
merge this patch into their tree.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h index 6fa2708..cf7fcab 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct
> task_struct *task,
>
> static inline int syscall_get_arch(void)
> {
> +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> + return AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE;
> +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> +#error PPC 32-bit Little Endian architecture not supported.
> +#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> +#else /* __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ */
> return is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_PPC : AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64;
> +#endif /* __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ */
> }
> #endif /* _ASM_SYSCALL_H */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> index 4d100c8..fa2a6af 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ enum {
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PARISC64 (EM_PARISC|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC (EM_PPC)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64 (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> +#define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT|__AUDIT_ARCH_LE)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390 (EM_S390)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390X (EM_S390|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_SH (EM_SH)

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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