Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: Wire up three syscalls

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Geert,
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Pranith,
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I see that the three syscalls seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create are not wired
>>> because of which we get a warning while compilation.
>>>
>>> So I wired them up in this patch. What else needs to be done? I tried the
>>> memfd_test after compiling this kernel, but it is failing. What am I missing for
>>> this to work? Any advice is really appreciated! :)
>>
>> Did it fail due to the (silly) "ifeq ($(ARCH),X86)" checks in
>> tools/testing/selftests/memfd/Makefile?
>>
>
> I removed that check and compiled memfd_test.c by hand. This is the
> following error which I get when I run the test:
>
> $ ./memfd_test
> memfd: CREATE
> memfd: BASIC
> 10 != 0 = GET_SEALS(3)
> Aborted
>
> This is basically when checking the seals which we already added. It
> should return 10 (F_SEAL_SHRINK | F_SEAL_WRITE), instead it is returning 0.
>
> What else needs to be done for this to properly work? I see that for
> m68k, you just wired it up like in this patch. Did it work after that?

The only arch-dependent code for memfd_test.c is the syscall invocation:
    memfd_create(const char *name, unsigned int flags);
via glibc as:
    syscall(__NR_memfd_create, name, flags);

Can you debug your test-run (maybe via simple printk() in mm/shmem.c
memfd_create()) and see what's going wrong there?

Thanks
David
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