Re: [PATCH] hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Wed Oct 25 2023 - 10:16:45 EST


On 25/10/2023 15.59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023, at 09:38, Thomas Huth wrote:
Kernel-internal prototypes, references to current_thread_info()
and code hidden behind a CONFIG_HEXAGON_ARCH_VERSION switch are
certainly not usable in userspace, so this should not reside
in a uapi header. Move the code into an internal version of
ptrace.h instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I've compile tested it now with a hexagon cross-compiler and the kernel
compiles fine with this change, so I think this should be good to go.

I've applied this to the asm-generic tree, thanks for the
patch.

Thanks!

+++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/page.h:CONFIG_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_16K
arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/page.h:CONFIG_ARC_PAGE_SIZE_4K
arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h:CONFIG_ARC_HAS_SWAPE
arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
-arch/hexagon/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:CONFIG_HEXAGON_ARCH_VERSION
arch/hexagon/include/uapi/asm/user.h:CONFIG_HEXAGON_ARCH_VERSION
arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:CONFIG_COLDFIRE
arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/swab.h:CONFIG_NIOS2_CI_SWAB_NO

Would you like to send another patch for the other hexagon
file? It looks trivial enough as we can just drop the #if
portion there and keep the #else side.

Looks like we have at least to look carefully at arch/hexagon/kernel/ptrace.c first ... pad1 is still used there and the of offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, pad1) results in different values depending on the CONFIG switch ... but sure, I can have a try to come up with a patch.

Thomas