Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: unistd.h: make 'compat_sys_fadvise64_64' conditional

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Aug 07 2022 - 18:42:50 EST


Hi Arnd,

On 8/7/22 12:44, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 7:28 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Don't require 'compat_sys_fadvise64_64' when
>> __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_FADVISE64_64 is not set.
>>
>> Fixes this build error when CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS is not set:
>>
>> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h:649:49: error: 'compat_sys_fadvise64_64' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'ksys_fadvise64_64'?
>> 649 | __SC_COMP(__NR3264_fadvise64, sys_fadvise64_64, compat_sys_fadvise64_64)
>> arch/riscv/kernel/compat_syscall_table.c:12:42: note: in definition of macro '__SYSCALL'
>> 12 | #define __SYSCALL(nr, call) [nr] = (call),
>> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h:649:1: note: in expansion of macro '__SC_COMP'
>> 649 | __SC_COMP(__NR3264_fadvise64, sys_fadvise64_64, compat_sys_fadvise64_64)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>> @@ -645,8 +645,10 @@ __SC_COMP(__NR_execve, sys_execve, compa
>> #define __NR3264_mmap 222
>> __SC_3264(__NR3264_mmap, sys_mmap2, sys_mmap)
>> /* mm/fadvise.c */
>> +#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_FADVISE64_64
>> #define __NR3264_fadvise64 223
>> __SC_COMP(__NR3264_fadvise64, sys_fadvise64_64, compat_sys_fadvise64_64)
>> +#endif
>>
>
> This does not work: __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_FADVISE64_64 is defined in
> arch/riscv/include/asm/unistd.h, which is not a UAPI header. By making the line
> conditional on this, user space no longer sees the macro definition.
>
> It looks like you also drop the native definition on all architectures other
> than riscv here. What we probably want is to just make all the
> declarations in include/linux/compat.h unconditional and not have them
> depend on architecture specific macros. Some of these may have
> incompatible prototypes depending on the architecture, but if we run
> into those, I would suggest we just give them unique names.

Thanks for the comments.

With the other patch to kernel/sys_ni.c, this one is no longer needed,
although I can look into making more entries in <linux/compat.h>
unconditional. That would also mean adding them to kernel/sys_ni.c, right?
(if not already there)

--
~Randy