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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: Fix argument passing for inlined syscalls on Linux [BZ #25523]
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:01:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3192bb62-53e2-8efc-4003-5fef1503ebb1@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2002222237250.3158264@eddie.linux-mips.org>



On 22/02/2020 19:40, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, WANG Xuerui wrote:
> 
>> According to [gcc documentation][1], temporary variables must be used for
>> the desired content to not be call-clobbered.
> 
>  Why does it specifically matter here?
> 
>> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h
>> index beefcf284b..c275d63f67 100644
>> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h
>> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h
> [...]
>> @@ -202,11 +203,13 @@ union __mips_syscall_return
>>  	long _sys_result;						\
>>  									\
>>  	{								\
>> +	long _arg1 = (long) (arg1);					\
>> +	long _arg2 = (long) (arg2);					\
>>  	register long __s0 asm ("$16") __attribute__ ((unused))		\
>>  	  = (number);							\
>>  	register long __v0 asm ("$2");					\
>> -	register long __a0 asm ("$4") = (long) (arg1);			\
>> -	register long __a1 asm ("$5") = (long) (arg2);			\
>> +	register long __a0 asm ("$4") = _arg1;				\
>> +	register long __a1 asm ("$5") = _arg2;				\
>>  	register long __a3 asm ("$7");					\
>>  	__asm__ volatile (						\
>>  	".set\tnoreorder\n\t"						\
> 
>  Can e.g. `(long) (arg1)' end up as a library call?  Do you have a case, 
> even potential, where such clobbering actually happens?

On sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c:

188   if ((attr->__flags & POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS) != 0
189       && (local_seteuid (__getuid ()) != 0
190           || local_setegid (__getgid ()) != 0))
191     goto fail;

And local_seteuid/local_setegid are defined as:

sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/local-setxid.h:
  5 #ifdef __NR_setresuid32
  6 # define local_seteuid(id) INLINE_SYSCALL (setresuid32, 3, -1, id, -1)
  7 #else
  8 # define local_seteuid(id) INLINE_SYSCALL (setresuid, 3, -1, id, -1)
  9 #endif
 10 
 11 
 12 #ifdef __NR_setresgid32
 13 # define local_setegid(id) INLINE_SYSCALL (setresgid32, 3, -1, id, -1)
 14 #else
 15 # define local_setegid(id) INLINE_SYSCALL (setresgid, 3, -1, id, -1)
 16 #endif

In any case, the previous usage of inline syscall is indeed fragile 
and subject to such potential breakage.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-25 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-09 18:57 [PATCH] mips: Fix argument passing for inlined syscalls on Linux [BZ #25523] WANG Xuerui
2020-02-10 16:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-02-10 22:34 ` Joseph Myers
2020-02-22 22:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-02-25 20:01   ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2020-02-27 18:23   ` Matt Turner
2020-03-17  0:18     ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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