Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] arm64: remove unnecessary ifdefs around is_compat_task()

[Mark Rutland]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 01:15:00AM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> Currently some parts of the codebase will test for CONFIG_COMPAT before
> testing is_compat_task().
> 
> is_compat_task() is a inlined function only present on CONFIG_COMPAT.
> On the other hand, for !CONFIG_COMPAT, we have in linux/compat.h:
> 
> #define is_compat_task() (0)
> 
> Since we have this define available in every usage of is_compat_task() for
> !CONFIG_COMPAT, it's unnecessary to keep the ifdefs, since the compiler is
> smart enough to optimize-out those snippets on CONFIG_COMPAT=n
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx>

I tried this atop the arm64 for-next/core branch, using GCC 13.2.0; building
defconfig + CONFIG_COMPAT=n results in build errors:

[mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% usekorg 13.2.0 make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux- Image
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CC      arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.o
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c: In function 'task_user_regset_view':
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:2121:25: error: 'user_aarch32_view' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'user_aarch64_view'?
 2121 |                 return &user_aarch32_view;
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                         user_aarch64_view
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:2121:25: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:2123:25: error: 'user_aarch32_ptrace_view' undeclared (first use in this function)
 2123 |                 return &user_aarch32_ptrace_view;
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:480: arch/arm64/kernel] Error 2
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:480: arch/arm64] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/home/mark/src/linux/Makefile:1911: .] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

... and looking at the code, user_aarch32_view and user_aarch32_ptrace_view are
both defined under ifdeffery for CONFIG_COMPAT, so that's obviously not going
to work...

That aside, removing ifdeffery is generally nice, so could you please try
building with CONFIG_COMPAT=n and see where you get to?

Thanks,
Mark.

> ---
> Changes since RFCv1:
> - Removed unnecessary new inlined is_compat_task() for arm64
> - Adjusted commit text and title
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240104192433.109983-2-leobras@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c  | 6 ++----
>  arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c | 5 +----
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 20d7ef82de90a..9f8781f1fdfda 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ static void ptrace_hbptriggered(struct perf_event *bp,
>  	struct arch_hw_breakpoint *bkpt = counter_arch_bp(bp);
>  	const char *desc = "Hardware breakpoint trap (ptrace)";
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>  	if (is_compat_task()) {
>  		int si_errno = 0;
>  		int i;
> @@ -195,7 +194,7 @@ static void ptrace_hbptriggered(struct perf_event *bp,
>  						  desc);
>  		return;
>  	}
> -#endif
> +
>  	arm64_force_sig_fault(SIGTRAP, TRAP_HWBKPT, bkpt->trigger, desc);
>  }
>  
> @@ -2112,7 +2111,6 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
>  
>  const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>  	/*
>  	 * Core dumping of 32-bit tasks or compat ptrace requests must use the
>  	 * user_aarch32_view compatible with arm32. Native ptrace requests on
> @@ -2123,7 +2121,7 @@ const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
>  		return &user_aarch32_view;
>  	else if (is_compat_thread(task_thread_info(task)))
>  		return &user_aarch32_ptrace_view;
> -#endif
> +
>  	return &user_aarch64_view;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
> index 9a70d9746b661..ad198262b9817 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
> @@ -20,14 +20,11 @@ long sys_ni_syscall(void);
>  
>  static long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> -	long ret;
>  	if (is_compat_task()) {
> -		ret = compat_arm_syscall(regs, scno);
> +		long ret = compat_arm_syscall(regs, scno);
>  		if (ret != -ENOSYS)
>  			return ret;
>  	}
> -#endif
>  
>  	return sys_ni_syscall();
>  }
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>