Re: [PATCH 03/11] powerpc: Drop unused syscall_get_error()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 14:48:31 EST


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> syscall_get_error() is unused, and never has been.
>
> It's also probably wrong, as it negates r3 before returning it, but that
> depends on what the caller is expecting.
>
> It also doesn't deal with compat, and doesn't deal with TIF_NOERROR.
>
> Although we could fix those, until it has a caller and it's clear what
> semantics the caller wants it's just untested code. So drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> index ff21b7a2f0cc..c6239dabcfb1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -34,12 +34,6 @@ static inline void syscall_rollback(struct task_struct *task,
> regs->gpr[3] = regs->orig_gpr3;
> }
>
> -static inline long syscall_get_error(struct task_struct *task,
> - struct pt_regs *regs)
> -{
> - return (regs->ccr & 0x10000000) ? -regs->gpr[3] : 0;
> -}
> -
> static inline long syscall_get_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
> struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> --
> 2.1.0
>



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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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