From: Tom Musta <tommu...@gmail.com> The semun union used in the semctl system call contains both an int (val) and pointers. In cross-endian situations on 64 bit targets, the value passed to semctl is an 8 byte (abi_long) value and thus does not have the 4-byte val field in the correct location. In order to rectify this, the other half of the union must be accessed. This is achieved in code by performing a byte swap on the entire 8 byte union, followed by a 4-byte swap of the first half.
Also, eliminate an extraneous (dead) line of code that sets target_su.val in the IPC_SET/IPC_GET case. Signed-off-by: Tom Musta <tommu...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@linaro.org> --- linux-user/syscall.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c index 08fdd94..39ab4c7 100644 --- a/linux-user/syscall.c +++ b/linux-user/syscall.c @@ -2652,9 +2652,18 @@ static inline abi_long do_semctl(int semid, int semnum, int cmd, switch( cmd ) { case GETVAL: case SETVAL: - arg.val = tswap32(target_su.val); + /* In 64 bit cross-endian situations, we will erroneously pick up + * the wrong half of the union for the "val" element. To rectify + * this, the entire 8-byte structure is byteswapped, followed by + * a swap of the 4 byte val field. In other cases, the data is + * already in proper host byte order. */ + if (sizeof(target_su.val) != (sizeof(target_su.buf))) { + target_su.buf = tswapal(target_su.buf); + arg.val = tswap32(target_su.val); + } else { + arg.val = target_su.val; + } ret = get_errno(semctl(semid, semnum, cmd, arg)); - target_su.val = tswap32(arg.val); break; case GETALL: case SETALL: -- 2.0.1