Re: [RFC PATCH] sys_read: add a compat_sys_read for 64bit system

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 03:34:26 EST


On June 7, 2016 7:14:41 PM PDT, "Zhangjian (Bamvor)" <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 2016/6/8 9:33, Weidong Wang wrote:
>> Test 32 progress and 64 progress on the 64bit system with
>> this progress:
>>
>> int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> {
>> int fd = 0;
>> int i, ret = 0;
>> char buf[512];
>> unsigned long count = -1;
>>
>> fd = open("/tmp", O_RDONLY);
>> if (fd < -1) {
>> printf("Pls check the directory is exist?\n");
>> return -1;
>> }
>> errno = 0;
>> ret = read(fd, NULL, count);
>> printf("Ret is %d errno %d\n", ret, errno);
>> close(fd);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> we get the different errno. The 64 progress we get errno is -14 while
>> the 32 progress is -21.
>>
>> The reason is that, the user progress would use a 32bit count, while
>> the sys_read size_t in kernel is 64bit. When the uesrspace count is
>> -1(0xffffffff), it goes to the sys_read, it would be change to a
>positive
>> number.
>>
>> So I think we should add a compat_sys_read for the read syscall. I
>test it
>> on x86 or arm64 platform. The patch works well.
>As weidong said, we tested on x86, x86_64, aarch64 ilp32, aarch64 lp64.
>We do not familiar with other architecture, cc linux-api, hope could
>get more
>input.
>
>Regards
>
>Bamvor
>>
>> As well this patch may do work for the 'tile' 64 system.
>> I think it may enter the same result on mips/parisc/powerpc/sparc.
>> The s390 do the compat_sys_s390_read for the compat sys_read.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 2 +-
>> fs/read_write.c | 8 ++++++++
>> include/linux/compat.h | 2 ++
>> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 2 +-
>> 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>> index 4cddd17..ebc24e3 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>> 0 i386 restart_syscall sys_restart_syscall
>> 1 i386 exit sys_exit
>> 2 i386 fork sys_fork sys_fork
>> -3 i386 read sys_read
>> +3 i386 read sys_read compat_sys_read
>> 4 i386 write sys_write
>> 5 i386 open sys_open compat_sys_open
>> 6 i386 close sys_close
>> diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
>> index 933b53a..d244848 100644
>> --- a/fs/read_write.c
>> +++ b/fs/read_write.c
>> @@ -613,6 +613,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(write, unsigned int, fd, const
>char __user *, buf,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>> +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(read, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, buf,
>> + compat_size_t, count)
>> +{
>> + return sys_read(fd, buf, (compat_ssize_t)count);
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pread64, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, buf,
>> size_t, count, loff_t, pos)
>> {
>> diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
>> index f964ef7..d88ccad 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/compat.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/compat.h
>> @@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_keyctl(u32 option,
>> u32 arg2, u32 arg3, u32 arg4, u32 arg5);
>> asmlinkage long compat_sys_ustat(unsigned dev, struct compat_ustat
>__user *u32);
>>
>> +asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_read(unsigned int fd,
>> + char __user * buf, compat_size_t count);
>> asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_readv(compat_ulong_t fd,
>> const struct compat_iovec __user *vec, compat_ulong_t vlen);
>> asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_writev(compat_ulong_t fd,
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>> index a26415b..745818a 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ __SC_COMP(__NR_getdents64, sys_getdents64,
>compat_sys_getdents64)
>> #define __NR3264_lseek 62
>> __SC_3264(__NR3264_lseek, sys_llseek, sys_lseek)
>> #define __NR_read 63
>> -__SYSCALL(__NR_read, sys_read)
>> +__SC_COMP(__NR_read, sys_read, compat_sys_read)
>> #define __NR_write 64
>> __SYSCALL(__NR_write, sys_write)
>> #define __NR_readv 65
>>

Does this cause any actual problems? Also, it seems extremely unlikely read() would be the only system call so affected.
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