On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:01 PM Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.de> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:46 AM Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.de>
> > wrote:
> >> Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.de> writes:
> >
> > I also noticed that only x86 and s390 even have separate entry
> > points for normal syscalls when called in compat mode, while
> > the others all just zero the upper halves of the registers in the
> > low-level entry code and then call the native entry point.
>
> It looks to me like aarch64 also has something similar? At any rate, I
> can try to fix it for x86 and investigate what else might be effected.
arm64 also has a custom asm/syscall_wrapper.h, but it only does
this for accessing pt_regs (as x86 does), not for doing any
argument conversion. x86 does the 32-to-64 widening in the
wrapper, arm64 relies on the pt_regs already having the upper
halves zeroed.
Arnd
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