[RFC PATCH 0/6] x86/entry: cleanups and consistent syscall number handling

[H. Peter Anvin]

From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

This patchset:

1. Cleans up some duplications between <entry/calling.h> and <asm/ptrace-abi.h>.

2. Swaps the arguments to do_syscall_64() for consistency *and* speed.

3. Adds the maximum number of flags to MSR_SYSCALL_MASK; the previous
   is more of a minimum. The more flags that are masked, the less the
   likelihood of a control leak into the kernel.

4. Consistently treat the system call number as a signed int. This is
   what syscall_get_nr() already does, and therefore what all
   architecture-independent code (e.g. seccomp) already expects.

5. Call sys_ni_syscall() for system calls which are out of range but
   still positive (negative system calls are used by ptrace and
   seccomp as a "skip system call" marker) just as for system call
   numbers that correspond to holes in the table.

6. In <entry/calling.h>, factor the PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS macro into
   separate PUSH_REGS and CLEAR_REGS macros which can be used
   separately if desired. This will be used by the FRED entry code at
   a later date.

--- 
 arch/x86/entry/calling.h       | 45 ++++++--------------------
 arch/x86/entry/common.c        | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S      |  4 +--
 arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h | 13 ++++----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c   | 12 +++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S      |  6 ++--
 6 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)