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syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32



Extend ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER for i386 emulation and for x32 on 64-bit
x86.

For x32, all we need to do is to create an additional stub for each
compat syscall which decodes the parameters in x86-64 ordering, e.g.:

	asmlinkage long __compat_sys_x32_xyzzy(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		return c_SyS_xyzzy(regs->di, regs->si, regs->dx);
	}

For i386 emulation, we need to teach compat_sys_*() to take struct
pt_regs as its only argument, e.g.:

	asmlinkage long __compat_sys_ia32_xyzzy(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		return c_SyS_xyzzy(regs->bx, regs->cx, regs->dx);
	}

In addition, we need to create additional stubs for common syscalls
(that is, for syscalls which have the same parameters on 32-bit and
64-bit), e.g.:

	asmlinkage long __sys_ia32_xyzzy(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		return c_sys_xyzzy(regs->bx, regs->cx, regs->dx);
	}

This approach avoids leaking random user-provided register content down
the call chain.

This patch is based on an original proof-of-concept

 | From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

and was split up and heavily modified by me, in particular to base it on
ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405095307.3730-6-linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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