* Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:

> We use three MOVs to swap edx and ecx. We can use one XCHG instead.
> 
> Expand the comments. It's difficult to keep track which arg# every register
> corresponds to, so spell it out.

> +     /*
> +      * At this point, registers hold syscall args in 32-bit ABI:
> +      * eax is syscall#, args are in ebx,ecx,edx,esi,edi,ebp.
> +      * Shuffle them to match what __audit_syscall_entry() wants.
> +      */
> +     movl    %esi, %r8d              /* arg5 (r8): 4th syscall arg */
> +     xchg    %ecx, %edx              /* arg4 (rcx): 3rd syscall arg (edx) */
> +                                     /* arg3 (rdx): 2nd syscall arg (ecx) */
> +     movl    %ebx, %esi              /* arg2 (rsi): 1st syscall arg */
> +     movl    %eax, %edi              /* arg1 (rdi): syscall number */
>       call    __audit_syscall_entry

So while we are at it I improved this a bit more, to:

        /*
         * At this point, registers hold syscall args in 32-bit syscall ABI:
         *   eax is syscall#, args are in ebx,ecx,edx,esi,edi,ebp.
         *
         * We want to pass them to __audit_syscall_entry(), which is a 64-bit
         * C function with 5 parameters, so shuffle them to match what
         * __audit_syscall_entry() expects: rdi,rsi,rdx,rcx,r8.
         */
        movl    %esi, %r8d              /* arg5 (r8 ) <= 4th syscall arg (esi) 
*/
        xchg    %ecx, %edx              /* arg4 (rcx) <= 3rd syscall arg (edx) 
*/
                                        /* arg3 (rdx) <= 2nd syscall arg (ecx) 
*/
        movl    %ebx, %esi              /* arg2 (rsi) <= 1st syscall arg (ebx) 
*/
        movl    %eax, %edi              /* arg1 (rdi) <= syscall number  (eax) 
*/
        call    __audit_syscall_entry

Btw., syscall auditing is not auditing syscall arguments #5 and #6?

Thanks,

        Ingo
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