Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC

[Paul Moore]

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/13/26 10:05 AM, Harsh Prateek Bora wrote:
> > On 11/03/26 12:49 am, Paul Moore wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
> >> <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
> >>> targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
> >>> support for bi-arch like powerpc.
> >>>
> >>> Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
> >>> added generic support for bi-arch.
> >>>
> >>> Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.
> >>>
> >>> With this change generated text is similar.
> >>>
> >>> Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing filter_exclude/test
> >>> is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306115350-ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>
> >>> Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
> >>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>> Venkat, a test result with
> >>> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Yes, I'd like to see confirmation that the audit test suite runs clean
> >> on ppc systems with this patch applied, and unfortunately without a
> >> ppc system I have no way to test this myself.
>
> My bad, this is a miss from my end.
> Venkat is already on this and will update the results here.

Do we have an update on this?  Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall
seeing any test results.

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