Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] mm: simplify compat numa syscalls

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 7:27 PM Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:48:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compat.h |  17 ++--
> >  mm/mempolicy.c         | 175 +++++++++++++----------------------------
> >  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
> ...
> > +static int get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const unsigned long __user *nmask,
> > +                   unsigned long maxnode)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned long nlongs = BITS_TO_LONGS(maxnode);
> > +     int ret;
> > +
> > +     if (in_compat_syscall())
> > +             ret = compat_get_bitmap(mask,
> > +                                     (const compat_ulong_t __user *)nmask,
> > +                                     maxnode);
>
> compat_ptr() conversion for e.g. nmask is missing with the next patch
> which removes the compat system calls.
> Is that intended or am I missing something?

I don't think it's needed here, since the pointer comes from the system
call argument, which has the compat_ptr() conversion applied in
arch/s390/include/asm/syscall_wrapper.h, not from a compat_uptr_t
that gets passed indirectly. The compat_get_bitmap() conversion
is only needed for byte order adjustment, not for converting pointers.

It's also possible that I'm the one who's missing something.

        Arnd