Re: [PATCH V2 11/17] riscv: compat: Add elf.h implementation

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Jan 10 2022 - 09:30:40 EST


On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 3:39 PM <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Implement necessary type and macro for compat elf. See the code
> comment for detail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This looks mostly correct,

> +/*
> + * FIXME: not sure SET_PERSONALITY for compat process is right!
> + */
> +#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex) \
> +do { if ((ex).e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32) \
> + set_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
> + else \
> + clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
> + set_personality(PER_LINUX | (current->personality & (~PER_MASK))); \
> +} while (0)

This means the personality after exec is always set to PER_LINUX, not
PER_LINUX32, which I think is wrong: you want the PER_LINUX32
setting to stick, just like the upper bits do in the default implementation.

What the other ones do is:

| arch/parisc/include/asm/elf.h-
set_personality((current->personality & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX); \

This looks like the same problem you introduce here: always forcing PER_LINUX
instead of PER_LINUX32 makes it impossible to use PER_LINUX32.

| arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h:#define SET_PERSONALITY(EX)
\
| arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h- set_personality(((EX).e_flags &
EF_ALPHA_32BIT) \
| arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h- ? PER_LINUX_32BIT : PER_LINUX)
| arch/csky/include/asm/elf.h:#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex)
set_personality(PER_LINUX)
| arch/nds32/include/asm/elf.h:#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex)
set_personality(PER_LINUX)

These look even worse: instead of forcing the lower bits to
PER_LINUX/PER_LINUX32 and
leaving the upper bits untouched, these also clear the upper bits
unconditionally.

| arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h:#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex)
\
| arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h- current->personality &=
~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC; \
| arch/x86/um/asm/elf.h:#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex) do {} while(0)
| arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h:#define set_personality_64bit() do {
} while (0)
| arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:static void __set_personality_ia32(void)
| current->personality |= force_personality32;

Inconsistent: does not enforce PER_LINUX/PER_LINUX32 as the default
implementation
does, but just leaves the value untouched (other than (re)setting
READ_IMPLIES_EXEC).
I think this is harmless otherwise, as we generally ignore the lower
bits, except for the
bit of code that checks for PER_LINUX32 in override_architecture() to mangle the
output of sys_newuname() or in /proc/cpuinfo.

| arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h- if
(personality(current->personality) != PER_LINUX32) \
| arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h- set_personality(PER_LINUX |
\
| arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h-
(current->personality & ~PER_MASK)); \
| arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h- if
(personality(current->personality) != PER_LINUX32) \
| arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h- set_personality(PER_LINUX |
\
| arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h-
(current->personality & (~PER_MASK))); \
| arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h- if
(personality(current->personality) != PER_LINUX32) \
| arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h-
set_personality(PER_LINUX | \
| arch/sparc/include/asm/elf_64.h-
(current->personality & (~PER_MASK))); \

This is probably the behavior you want to copy.

Arnd