[PATCH v3] selftests/seccomp: add Alpha support to seccomp_bpf
From: Magnus Lindholm
Date: Sat Oct 10 2026 - 09:42:28 EST
Enable the seccomp BPF selftests on Alpha with a fallback seccomp syscall
number and architecture-specific syscall register accessors.
Use the NT_PRSTATUS register layout rather than struct pt_regs. The
register set contains r0-r30 followed by pc and unique. Read and update
the syscall number in r1, and set both r0 and the r19/a3 error flag when
synthesizing syscall results.
At syscall entry, r19 still contains the fourth syscall argument, so
callers setting a synthetic return value must also set the syscall
number to -1 to skip execution.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Drop the /proc/self/syscall availability check and its commit-message
paragraph. Alpha selects HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK.
- Document that setting r19/a3 at syscall entry requires callers to also
set the syscall number to -1.
- Add Matt Turner's Reviewed-by after addressing his review comments.
Changes in v2:
- Use the NT_PRSTATUS layout for PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET.
- Set the Alpha return value and error flag together.
- Check for /proc/self/syscall at runtime (removed in v3).
Validation on AlphaServer ES40, GCC 15.2.1, running
7.3.0-rc1-es40-tsunami-v5a+:
- Standard v3 and the original baseline binary both report 98 pass,
1 fail, 12 skip. The common failure is the 30-second timeout in
user_notification_wait_killable_after_reply.
- A separate diagnostic build extending only that test's timeout to
180 seconds completes it in 34.938 seconds. The full diagnostic run
reports 99 pass, 0 fail, 12 skip. No timeout change is in this patch.
tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
index 0622bc2..79e8eb3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ struct seccomp_data {
# define __NR_seccomp 354
# elif defined(__x86_64__)
# define __NR_seccomp 317
+# elif defined(__alpha__)
+# define __NR_seccomp 514
# elif defined(__arm__)
# define __NR_seccomp 383
# elif defined(__aarch64__)
@@ -1754,6 +1756,30 @@ TEST_F(TRACE_poke, getpid_runs_normally)
# define ARCH_REGS struct user_regs_struct
# define SYSCALL_NUM(_regs) (_regs).orig_eax
# define SYSCALL_RET(_regs) (_regs).eax
+#elif defined(__alpha__)
+/* NT_PRSTATUS contains r0-r30, pc and unique, not struct pt_regs. */
+struct alpha_regs {
+ unsigned long regs[33];
+};
+
+# define ARCH_REGS struct alpha_regs
+/* The kernel keeps the mutable syscall number in r1. */
+# define SYSCALL_NUM(_regs) ((_regs).regs[1])
+# define SYSCALL_RET(_regs) ((_regs).regs[0])
+/*
+ * Alpha returns positive errno in r0 with the r19/a3 error flag set.
+ * At a syscall-entry stop, r19 is still the fourth syscall argument.
+ * Callers must also set the syscall number to -1 to skip the syscall
+ * before replacing r19 with the error flag.
+ */
+# define SYSCALL_RET_SET(_regs, _val) \
+ do { \
+ struct alpha_regs *__regs = &(_regs); \
+ long __ret = (_val); \
+ \
+ __regs->regs[0] = __ret < 0 ? -__ret : __ret; \
+ __regs->regs[19] = __ret < 0; \
+ } while (0)
#elif defined(__arm__)
# define ARCH_REGS struct pt_regs
# define SYSCALL_NUM(_regs) (_regs).ARM_r7
--
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