Re: [PATCH seccomp 3/8] powerpc: Enable seccomp architecture tracking

[Michael Ellerman]

YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 4:22 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
>>
>> As Kees mentioned this should (must?!) match the configured endian.
>>
>> But I think it would still be better to use the CONFIG symbol, which is
>> CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN.
>
> My attempt here is to be consistent with asm/syscall.h
> syscall_get_arch [1]. Would it make sense to change that to
> CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN then?
>
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h#L116

Looking across the tree with have thousands of usages of
__LITTLE_ENDIAN__, so it's probably not worth converting to
CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN.

>> > +# define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE         (AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64 | __SECCOMP_ARCH_LE)
>>
>> You use __SECCOMP_ARCH_LE there, but previously you only defined
>> __SECCOMP_ARCH_LE_BIT.
>>
>> Is there some magic somewhere that defines __SECCOMP_ARCH_LE based on
>> __SECCOMP_ARCH_LE_BIT ?
>
> Oops, my bad here.

OK :)

>> > +# define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR              NR_syscalls
>> > +# define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME    "ppc64"
>>
>> What's the name used for?
>
> This is used in the last patch in this series to report in procfs the
> name of each architecture tracked by the bitmap cache.

OK, yeah I think it would be better if the matched the uname -m values.

>> Usually we use "ppc64" for 64-bit big endian and "ppc64le" for 64-bit
>> little endian.
>>
>> And usually we use "ppc" for 32-bit.
>
> Ok.


cheers