Re: [PATCH v5 13/25] m68k: add asm/syscall.h

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Dmitry,

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> wrote:
> syscall_get_* functions are required to be implemented on all
> architectures in order to extend the generic ptrace API with
> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request.
>
> This introduces asm/syscall.h on m68k implementing all 5 syscall_get_*
> functions as documented in asm-generic/syscall.h: syscall_get_nr,
> syscall_get_arguments, syscall_get_error, syscall_get_return_value,
> and syscall_get_arch.
>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Elvira Khabirova <lineprin...@altlinux.org>
> Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov <e...@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-m...@lists.linux-m68k.org
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     v5: added syscall_get_nr, syscall_get_arguments, syscall_get_error,
>         and syscall_get_return_value
>     v1: added syscall_get_arch

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@

> +static inline void
> +syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
> +                     unsigned int i, unsigned int n, unsigned long *args)
> +{
> +       BUG_ON(i + n > 6);

Does this have to crash the kernel?
Perhaps you can return an error code instead?

> +       memcpy(args, &regs->d1 + i, n * sizeof(args[0]));
> +}

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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