[PATCH 5.4 108/142] x86/syscalls: Revert "x86/syscalls: Make __X32_SYSCALL_BIT be unsigned long"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 14:11:39 EST


From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 700d3a5a664df267f01ec8887fd2d8ff98f67e7f upstream.

Revert

45e29d119e99 ("x86/syscalls: Make __X32_SYSCALL_BIT be unsigned long")

and add a comment to discourage someone else from making the same
mistake again.

It turns out that some user code fails to compile if __X32_SYSCALL_BIT
is unsigned long. See, for example [1] below.

[ bp: Massage and do the same thing in the respective tools/ header. ]

Fixes: 45e29d119e99 ("x86/syscalls: Make __X32_SYSCALL_BIT be unsigned long")
Reported-by: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954294
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/92e55442b744a5951fdc9cfee10badd0a5f7f828.1588983892.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 11 +++++++++--
tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -2,8 +2,15 @@
#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_X86_UNISTD_H
#define _UAPI_ASM_X86_UNISTD_H

-/* x32 syscall flag bit */
-#define __X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000UL
+/*
+ * x32 syscall flag bit. Some user programs expect syscall NR macros
+ * and __X32_SYSCALL_BIT to have type int, even though syscall numbers
+ * are, for practical purposes, unsigned long.
+ *
+ * Fortunately, expressions like (nr & ~__X32_SYSCALL_BIT) do the right
+ * thing regardless.
+ */
+#define __X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000

#ifndef __KERNEL__
# ifdef __i386__
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#define _UAPI_ASM_X86_UNISTD_H

/* x32 syscall flag bit */
-#define __X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000UL
+#define __X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000

#ifndef __KERNEL__
# ifdef __i386__