Re: [PATCH -v2] x86/ia32: State that IA32 emulation is disabled

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Fri Dec 08 2023 - 13:42:36 EST




On 6.12.23 г. 19:20 ч., Borislav Petkov wrote:
From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:39:33 +0100

Issue a short message once, on the first try to load a 32-bit process to
save people time when wondering why it won't load and trying to execute
it, would say:

-bash: ./strsep32: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>

LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h | 11 ++++++++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
index a0234dfd1031..1e16bd5ac781 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ do { \
((x)->e_machine == EM_X86_64)
#define compat_elf_check_arch(x) \
- ((elf_check_arch_ia32(x) && ia32_enabled()) || \
+ ((elf_check_arch_ia32(x) && ia32_enabled_verbose()) || \
(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI) && (x)->e_machine == EM_X86_64))
static inline void elf_common_init(struct thread_struct *t,
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h
index 5a2ae24b1204..094886a8717e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_IA32_H
#define _ASM_X86_IA32_H
-
#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
#include <linux/compat.h>
@@ -84,4 +83,14 @@ static inline bool ia32_enabled(void)
#endif
+static inline bool ia32_enabled_verbose(void)
+{
+ bool enabled = ia32_enabled();
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION) && !enabled)

nit: But why check config_ia32_emulation explicitly, its state should already be accounted for in ia32_enabled's value? So this check can simply be 'if (!enabled)'

+ pr_notice_once("32-bit emulation disabled. You can reenable with ia32_emulation=on\n");
+
+ return enabled;
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_IA32_H */