Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64

[David Hildenbrand]

On 01.09.25 15:09, Simon Schuster via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
> clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
> increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
> However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
> changed from the previous type of unsigned long.
>
> While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
> (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
> undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.
>
> Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
> function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
> clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
> 32-bit architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/alpha/kernel/process.c      | 2 +-
>   arch/arc/kernel/process.c        | 2 +-
>   arch/arm/kernel/process.c        | 2 +-
>   arch/arm64/kernel/process.c      | 2 +-
>   arch/csky/kernel/process.c       | 2 +-
>   arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c    | 2 +-
>   arch/loongarch/kernel/process.c  | 2 +-
>   arch/m68k/kernel/process.c       | 2 +-
>   arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
>   arch/mips/kernel/process.c       | 2 +-
>   arch/nios2/kernel/process.c      | 2 +-
>   arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c   | 2 +-
>   arch/parisc/kernel/process.c     | 2 +-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c    | 2 +-
>   arch/riscv/kernel/process.c      | 2 +-
>   arch/s390/kernel/process.c       | 2 +-
>   arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c      | 2 +-
>   arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c   | 2 +-
>   arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c   | 2 +-
>   arch/um/kernel/process.c         | 2 +-
>   arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
>   arch/x86/include/asm/shstk.h     | 4 ++--
>   arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c       | 2 +-
>   arch/x86/kernel/process.c        | 2 +-
>   arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c          | 2 +-
>   arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c     | 2 +-
>   26 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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Thanks!

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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David / dhildenb