linux-stable.git/arch/ia64/include/asm/syscall.h, branch master

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

arch: remove unused function syscall_set_arguments()

2021-09-14T14:06:20+00:00

This function appears to have been unused since it was first introduced in
commit 828c365cc8b8 ("tracehook: asm/syscall.h").

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne 
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I8ce04f002903a37c0b6c1d16e9b2a3afa716c097
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

ia64: fix ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_EXIT) sign

2021-03-13T19:27:31+00:00

In https://bugs.gentoo.org/769614 Dmitry noticed that
`ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO)` does not return error sign properly.

The bug is in mismatch between get/set errors:

static inline long syscall_get_error(struct task_struct *task,
                                     struct pt_regs *regs)
{
        return regs->r10 == -1 ? regs->r8:0;
}

static inline long syscall_get_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
                                            struct pt_regs *regs)
{
        return regs->r8;
}

static inline void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
                                            struct pt_regs *regs,
                                            int error, long val)
{
        if (error) {
                /* error < 0, but ia64 uses > 0 return value */
                regs->r8 = -error;
                regs->r10 = -1;
        } else {
                regs->r8 = val;
                regs->r10 = 0;
        }
}

Tested on v5.10 on rx3600 machine (ia64 9040 CPU).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210221002554.333076-2-slyfox@gentoo.org
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769614
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich 
Reported-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 193

2019-05-30T18:29:21+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use
  modify copy or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
  of the gnu general public license v 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 45 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow 
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170027.342746075@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit

2019-05-08T02:06:04+00:00

Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "We've got a reasonably broad set of audit patches for the v5.2 merge
  window, the highlights are below:

   - The biggest change, and the source of all the arch/* changes, is
     the patchset from Dmitry to help enable some of the work he is
     doing around PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO.

     To be honest, including this in the audit tree is a bit of a
     stretch, but it does help move audit a little further along towards
     proper syscall auditing for all arches, and everyone else seemed to
     agree that audit was a "good" spot for this to land (or maybe they
     just didn't want to merge it? dunno.).

   - We can now audit time/NTP adjustments.

   - We continue the work to connect associated audit records into a
     single event"

* tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: (21 commits)
  audit: fix a memory leak bug
  ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment
  timekeeping: Audit clock adjustments
  audit: purge unnecessary list_empty calls
  audit: link integrity evm_write_xattrs record to syscall event
  syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  unicore32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_UNICORE to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  nios2: define syscall_get_arch()
  nds32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_NDS32 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  m68k: define syscall_get_arch()
  hexagon: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_HEXAGON to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  h8300: define syscall_get_arch()
  c6x: define syscall_get_arch()
  arc: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_ARCOMPACT and EM_ARCV2 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  audit: Make audit_log_cap and audit_copy_inode static
  audit: connect LOGIN record to its syscall record
  ...

syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_set_arguments() args

2019-04-05T13:27:23+00:00

After removing the start and count arguments of syscall_get_arguments() it
seems reasonable to remove them from syscall_set_arguments(). Note, as of
today, there are no users of syscall_set_arguments(). But we are told that
there will be soon. But for now, at least make it consistent with
syscall_get_arguments().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327222014.GA32540@altlinux.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Max Filippov  # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon  # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner  # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args

2019-04-05T13:26:43+00:00

At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.

This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton  # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov  # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon  # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner  # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument

2019-03-21T01:12:36+00:00

This argument is required to extend the generic ptrace API with
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request: syscall_get_arch() is going
to be called from ptrace_request() along with syscall_get_nr(),
syscall_get_arguments(), syscall_get_error(), and
syscall_get_return_value() functions with a tracee as their argument.

The primary intent is that the triple (audit_arch, syscall_nr, arg1..arg6)
should describe what system call is being called and what its arguments
are.

Reverts: 5e937a9ae913 ("syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments")
Reverts: 1002d94d3076 ("syscall.h: fix doc text for syscall_get_arch()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski  # for x86
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt 
Acked-by: Paul Moore 
Acked-by: Paul Burton  # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Acked-by: Kees Cook  # seccomp parts
Acked-by: Mark Salter  # for the c6x bit
Cc: Elvira Khabirova 
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin 
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

ARCH: AUDIT: implement syscall_get_arch for all arches

2014-09-23T20:20:10+00:00

For all arches which support audit implement syscall_get_arch()
They are all pretty easy and straight forward, stolen from how the call
to audit_syscall_entry() determines the arch.

Based-on-patch-by: Richard Briggs 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

[IA64] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support

2010-02-08T18:42:17+00:00

This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
to use the IA32-EL software emulation).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck