> From 73471e01733dd1d998ff3cd41edebb4c78793193 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:54:22 +0100
> Subject: [RFC] linux-user: Use new F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS fcntl for 32-bit guests
> 
> If the guest is 32 bit then there is a potential problem if the
> host gives us back a 64-bit sized value that we can't fit into
> the ABI the guest requires. This is a theoretical issue for many
> syscalls, but a real issue for directory reads where the host
> is using ext3 or ext4. There the 'offset' values retured via
> the getdents syscall are hashes, and on a 64-bit system they
> will always fill the full 64 bits.
> 
> Use the F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS fcntl to tell the kernel to stick
> to 32-bit sized hashes for fds used by the guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Another question I had here is whether the filesystem needs to provide
32-bit values for other syscalls, such as stat() and statfs()?  For
ext4, stat() is not going to return a 64-bit inode number, but other
filesystems might (e.g. Lustre has a mode to do this).  Similarly,
should statfs() scale up f_bsize until it can return a 32-bit f_blocks
value?  We also had to do this ages ago for Lustre when 32-bit clients
couldn't handle > 16TB filesystems, but that is a single disk today.

Should that be added into F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS also?

Cheers, Andreas

> ---
> RFC patch because it depends on the kernel patch to provide
> F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS, which is still under discussion. All this
> patch does is call the fcntl for every fd the guest opens.
> 
> linux-user/syscall.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
> index 674f70e70a5..8966d4881bd 100644
> --- a/linux-user/syscall.c
> +++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
> @@ -884,6 +884,28 @@ static inline int host_to_target_sock_type(int host_type)
>     return target_type;
> }
> 
> +/*
> + * If the guest is using a 32 bit ABI then we should try to ask the kernel
> + * to provide 32-bit offsets in getdents syscalls, as otherwise some
> + * filesystems will return 64-bit hash values which we can't fit into
> + * the field sizes the guest ABI mandates.
> + */
> +#ifndef F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS
> +#define F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS (1024 + 15)
> +#endif
> +
> +static inline void request_32bit_fs(int fd)
> +{
> +#if HOST_LONG_BITS > TARGET_ABI_BITS
> +    /*
> +     * Ignore errors, which are likely due to the host kernel being too
> +     * old to support this fcntl. We'll try anyway, which might or might
> +     * not work, depending on the guest code and on the host filesystem.
> +     */
> +    fcntl(fd, F_SET_FILE_32BIT_FS);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> static abi_ulong target_brk;
> static abi_ulong target_original_brk;
> static abi_ulong brk_page;
> @@ -7704,6 +7726,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int
> num, abi_long arg1,
>                                   target_to_host_bitmask(arg2,
> fcntl_flags_tbl),
>                                   arg3));
>         fd_trans_unregister(ret);
> +        request_32bit_fs(ret);
>         unlock_user(p, arg1, 0);
>         return ret;
> #endif
> @@ -7714,6 +7737,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int
> num, abi_long arg1,
>                                   target_to_host_bitmask(arg3,
> fcntl_flags_tbl),
>                                   arg4));
>         fd_trans_unregister(ret);
> +        request_32bit_fs(ret);
>         unlock_user(p, arg2, 0);
>         return ret;
> #if defined(TARGET_NR_name_to_handle_at) && defined(CONFIG_OPEN_BY_HANDLE)
> @@ -7725,6 +7749,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int
> num, abi_long arg1,
>     case TARGET_NR_open_by_handle_at:
>         ret = do_open_by_handle_at(arg1, arg2, arg3);
>         fd_trans_unregister(ret);
> +        request_32bit_fs(ret);
>         return ret;
> #endif
>     case TARGET_NR_close:
> @@ -7769,6 +7794,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int
> num, abi_long arg1,
>             return -TARGET_EFAULT;
>         ret = get_errno(creat(p, arg2));
>         fd_trans_unregister(ret);
> +        request_32bit_fs(ret);
>         unlock_user(p, arg1, 0);
>         return ret;
> #endif
> @@ -12393,6 +12419,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int
> num, abi_long arg1,
>         }
>         ret = get_errno(memfd_create(p, arg2));
>         fd_trans_unregister(ret);
> +        request_32bit_fs(ret);
>         unlock_user(p, arg1, 0);
>         return ret;
> #endif
> --
> 2.20.1


Cheers, Andreas