From da20ab35180780e4a6eadc804544f1fa967f3567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:21:07 -0700 Subject: x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt() We do not have tracepoints for sys_modify_ldt() because we define it directly instead of using the normal SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros. However, there is a reason sys_modify_ldt() does not use the macros: it has an 'int' return type instead of 'unsigned long'. This is a bug, but it's a bug cemented in the ABI. What does this mean? If we return -EINVAL from a function that returns 'int', we have 0x00000000ffffffea in %rax. But, if we return -EINVAL from a function returning 'unsigned long', we end up with 0xffffffffffffffea in %rax, which is wrong. To work around this and maintain the 'int' behavior while using the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros, so we add a cast to 'unsigned int' in both implementations of sys_modify_ldt(). Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018172107.1A79C532@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h index 91dfcafe27a6..bad25bb80679 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioperm(unsigned long, unsigned long, int); asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int); /* kernel/ldt.c */ -asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long); +asmlinkage long sys_modify_ldt(int, void __user *, unsigned long); /* kernel/signal.c */ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn(void); -- cgit v1.2.3