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Commit b337b496 authored by H. Peter Anvin (Intel)'s avatar H. Peter Anvin (Intel) Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/entry: Treat out of range and gap system calls the same



The current 64-bit system call entry code treats out-of-range system
calls differently than system calls that map to a hole in the system
call table.

This is visible to the user if system calls are intercepted via ptrace or
seccomp and the return value (regs->ax) is modified: in the former case,
the return value is preserved, and in the latter case, sys_ni_syscall() is
called and the return value is forced to -ENOSYS.

The API spec in <asm-generic/syscalls.h> is very clear that only
(int)-1 is the non-system-call sentinel value, so make the system call
behavior consistent by calling sys_ni_syscall() for all invalid system
call numbers except for -1.

Although currently sys_ni_syscall() simply returns -ENOSYS, calling it
explicitly is friendly for tracing and future possible extensions, and
as this is an error path there is no reason to optimize it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210518191303.4135296-6-hpa@zytor.com
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