Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()

From: Tony Jones
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 16:54:56 EST


On 12/02/2014 01:27 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Since both ppc and ppc64 have LE variants which are now reported by uname, add
> that flag (__AUDIT_ARCH_LE) to syscall_get_arch() and add AUDIT_ARCH_PPC*LE
> variants.
>
> Without this, perf trace and auditctl fail.
>
> Mainline kernel reports ppc64le (per a058801) but there is no matching
> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE.
>
> See:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-August/msg00082.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-December/msg00004.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h | 6 +++++-
> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> index 6fa2708..a58acab 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
>
> static inline int syscall_get_arch(void)
> {
> - return is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_PPC : AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64;
> + int arch = is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_PPC : AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64;
> +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> + arch |= __AUDIT_ARCH_LE
> +#endif
> + return arch;
> }
> #endif /* _ASM_SYSCALL_H */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> index 4d100c8..fe29a99 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> @@ -364,7 +364,9 @@ enum {
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PARISC (EM_PARISC)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PARISC64 (EM_PARISC|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC (EM_PPC)
> +#define AUDIT_ARCH_PPCLE (EM_PPC|__AUDIT_ARCH_LE)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64 (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> +#define AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE (EM_PPC64|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT|__AUDIT_ARCH_LE)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390 (EM_S390)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_S390X (EM_S390|__AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT)
> #define AUDIT_ARCH_SH (EM_SH)

IBM would know for certain but I wasn't aware there was a PPCLE (32bit compat).

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