The commit 8170a83f15ee ("powerpc: Wireup the kcmp syscall to sys_ni") has
disabled the kcmp syscall for powerpc. This has been done due to the use
of unsigned long parameters which may require a dedicated wrapper to handle
32bit process on top of 64bit kernel. However in the kcmp() case, the 2
unsigned long parameters are currently only used to carry file descriptors
from user space to the kernel. Since such a parameter is passed through
register, and file descriptor doesn't need to get extended, there is,
today, no need for a wrapper.
In the case there will be a need to pass address in or out of this system
call, then a wrapper could be required, it will then be to care of it.
As today this is not the case, it is safe to enable kcmp() on powerpc.
Cc: Tony Breeds <t...@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
index 91062eef582f..b257f02ab6bf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ SYSCALL_SPU(setns)
COMPAT_SYS(process_vm_readv)
COMPAT_SYS(process_vm_writev)
SYSCALL(finit_module)
-SYSCALL(ni_syscall) /* sys_kcmp */
+SYSCALL(kcmp) /* sys_kcmp */
SYSCALL_SPU(sched_setattr)
SYSCALL_SPU(sched_getattr)
SYSCALL_SPU(renameat2)
--
1.9.1
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