[tip: x86/misc] x86/ia32: State that IA32 emulation is disabled

From: tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov (AMD)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2023 - 04:28:14 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/misc branch of tip:

Commit-ID: f789383fa34a266d0c1a76f272043a15a8edf733
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/f789383fa34a266d0c1a76f272043a15a8edf733
Author: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:39:33 +01:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:14:28 +01:00

x86/ia32: State that IA32 emulation is disabled

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>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130155213.1407-1-bp@xxxxxxxxx
---
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 a0234df..1e16bd5 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 5a2ae24..094886a 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)
+ pr_notice_once("32-bit emulation disabled. You can reenable with ia32_emulation=on\n");
+
+ return enabled;
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_IA32_H */