Re: [PATCH] arm64: fix function types in COND_SYSCALL

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 02:11:44PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 03:40:44PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > Define a weak function in COND_SYSCALL instead of a weak alias to
> > > sys_ni_syscall, which has an incompatible type. This fixes indirect
> > > call mismatches with Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This looks correct to me, builds fine, and I asume has been tested, so FWIW:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In looking at this, I came to the conclusion that we can drop the ifdeffery
> > around our SYSCALL_DEFINE0(), COND_SYSCALL(), and SYS_NI(), which I evidently
> > cargo-culted from x86 (where the ifdeffery is actually necessary).
> 
> Curious: why is it required on x86?

Due to the way they share some native calls with (IA32) compat, but need
slightly different wrappers to marshall registers, they have ifdeffery
like:

#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
#define COND_SYSCALL(name)                                              \
        cond_syscall(__x64_sys_##name);                                 \
        cond_syscall(__ia32_sys_##name)
#endif

#ifndef COND_SYSCALL
#define COND_SYSCALL(name) cond_syscall(__x64_sys_##name)
#endif

... so that they define the compat wrapper when necessary, but not otherwise.

As we don't share the native syscall table with compat tasks, we don't
need to do anything like that, and can unconditionally define the native
case once.

> > I can send a follow up for that.
> 
> Yes, please.

I'll cook that up now, atop of Sami's patch applied to arm64's
for-next/core.

Thanks,
Mark.