Re: [PATCH] riscv: entry: set a0 prior to syscall_handler

[Celeste Liu]

On 2023/7/13 08:00, Guo Ren wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 2:22 AM Celeste Liu <coelacanthushex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> When we test seccomp with 6.4 kernel, we found errno has wrong value.
>> If we deny NETLINK_AUDIT with EAFNOSUPPORT, after f0bddf50586d, we will
>> get ENOSYS. We got same result with 9c2598d43510 ("riscv: entry: Save a0
>> prior syscall_enter_from_user_mode()").
>>
>> Compared with x86 and loongarch's implementation of this part of the
>> function, we think that regs->a0 = -ENOSYS should be advanced before
>> syscall_handler to fix this problem. We have written the following patch,
>> which can fix this problem after testing. But we don't know enough about
>> this part of the code to explain the root cause. Hope someone can find
>> a reasonable explanation. And we'd like to reword this commit message
>> according to the explanation in v2
>>
>> Fixes: f0bddf50586d ("riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry")
>> Reported-by: Felix Yan <felixonmars@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Co-developed-by: Ruizhe Pan <c141028@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Ruizhe Pan <c141028@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Co-developed-by: Shiqi Zhang <shiqi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Shiqi Zhang <shiqi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Celeste Liu <CoelacanthusHex@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Felix Yan <felixonmars@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>> index f910dfccbf5d2..ccadb5ffd063c 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>> @@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible __trap_section void do_trap_ecall_u(struct pt_regs *regs)
>>
>>                 regs->epc += 4;
>>                 regs->orig_a0 = regs->a0;
>> +               regs->a0 = -ENOSYS;
> Oh, no. You destroyed the a0 for syscall_handler, right? It's not
> reasonable. Let's see which syscall_handler needs a0=-ENOSYS.

syscall_handler always use orig_a0, not a0.
And I have a mistake in original email, corret one is
syscall_enter_from_user_mode not syscall_handler.

> Could you give out more detail on your test case?
> 
>>
>>                 riscv_v_vstate_discard(regs);
>>
>> @@ -308,8 +309,6 @@ asmlinkage __visible __trap_section void do_trap_ecall_u(struct pt_regs *regs)
>>
>>                 if (syscall < NR_syscalls)
>>                         syscall_handler(regs, syscall);
>> -               else
>> -                       regs->a0 = -ENOSYS;
>>
>>                 syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
>>         } else {
>> --
>> 2.41.0
>>
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