From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][ATCH 1/3] ptrace: Remove maxargs from task_current_syscall()
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:20:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUBLL+2bU+A03sEns=ESjTXModxwuxiH1EHj__SDp2hgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyMVXRt2PPifWwVW9oP6+4Cpc4B01t2S1840ZbHk7d1Dg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> So I definitely approve of the change, but I wonder if we should go
> one step further:
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>>
>> extern int task_current_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
>> - unsigned long args[6], unsigned int maxargs,
>> - unsigned long *sp, unsigned long *pc);
>> + unsigned long args[6], unsigned long *sp,
>> + unsigned long *pc);
>
> The thing is, in C, having an array in a function declaration is
> pretty much exactly the same as just having a pointer, so from a type
> checking standpoint it doesn't really help all that much (but from a
> "human documentation" side the "args[6]" is much better than "*args").
>
> However, what would really help type checking is making it a
> structure. And maybe that structure could just contain "callno", "sp"
> and "pc" too? That would not only fix the type checking, it would make
> the calling convention even cleaner. Just have one single structure
> that contains all the relevant data.
I would propose calling this 'struct seccomp_data'.
>
> For example, kernel/seccomp.c does this instead:
>
> sd->nr = syscall_get_nr(task, regs);
> sd->arch = syscall_get_arch();
> syscall_get_arguments(task, regs, 0, 6, args);
> sd->args[0] = args[0];
> sd->args[1] = args[1];
> sd->args[2] = args[2];
> sd->args[3] = args[3];
> sd->args[4] = args[4];
> sd->args[5] = args[5];
> sd->instruction_pointer = KSTK_EIP(task);
It's a bit hard to tell from seccomp.c, but x86 carefully arranges for
that code to never get run -- instead the entry code supplies a struct
seccomp_data. Other arches could follow suit for a nice speedup.
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-08 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-07 21:26 [RFC][ATCH 0/3] sycalls: Remove args i and n from syscall_get_arguments() Steven Rostedt
2016-11-07 21:26 ` [RFC][ATCH 1/3] ptrace: Remove maxargs from task_current_syscall() Steven Rostedt
2016-11-07 23:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-08 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-08 16:20 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-11-08 19:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-08 21:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-08 21:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-07 21:26 ` [RFC][ATCH 2/3] tracing/syscalls: Pass in hardcoded 6 into syscall_get_arguments() Steven Rostedt
2016-11-07 21:26 ` [RFC][ATCH 3/3] syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args Steven Rostedt
2016-11-07 23:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-08 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
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