Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC

[Harsh Prateek Bora]

+ Ritesh

Hi Venkat,

On 11/03/26 12:49 am, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
> <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
> > targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
> > support for bi-arch like powerpc.
> >
> > Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
> > added generic support for bi-arch.
> >
> > Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.
> >
> > With this change generated text is similar.
> >
> > Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing filter_exclude/test
> > is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306115350-ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Venkat, a test result with https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite would be appreciated.
>
> Yes, I'd like to see confirmation that the audit test suite runs clean
> on ppc systems with this patch applied, and unfortunately without a
> ppc system I have no way to test this myself.

Is it possible to include this test suite in the IBM CI ?

Thanks
Harsh
> > v3: Rebased on v7.0-rc1
> >
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a4b3951d1191d4183d92a07a6097566bde60d00a.1629812058.git.christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/Kconfig                |  5 +-
> >   arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd32.h |  7 +++
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile        |  3 -
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/audit.c         | 87 -----------------------------
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/compat_audit.c  | 49 ----------------
> >   5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd32.h
> >   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/audit.c
> >   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/compat_audit.c