Re: [PATCH v2] prctl: fix compat handling for prctl

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Apr 18 2018 - 22:25:54 EST


> On Apr 18, 2018, at 9:06 PM, Li Bin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The member auxv in prctl_mm_map structure which be shared with
> userspace is pointer type, but the kernel supporting COMPAT didn't
> handle it. This patch fix the compat handling for prctl syscall.

I would propose an alternative fix: change the type to u64. As far as
I know, this thing is only used by CRIU, and CRIU doesnât work (AFAIK)
on native 32-bit anyway. Do you know of some reason that this
wouldn't work?