Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Wire up sys_execveat() syscall

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Sun Dec 21 2014 - 04:56:38 EST


Hi Pranith,

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:47:18 -0500 Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wire up sys_execveat(). This passes the selftests for the system call.

Thanks for this, but ...

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
> index ce9577d..778844a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
> @@ -366,3 +366,4 @@ SYSCALL_SPU(seccomp)
> SYSCALL_SPU(getrandom)
> SYSCALL_SPU(memfd_create)
> SYSCALL_SPU(bpf)
> +SYSCALL_SPU(execveat)

Given that it passes pointers into the kernel and looking at the execve
system call, I assume that it should be COMPAT_SYS().

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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