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From: alexander.levin@verizon.com
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"scientist@fb.com" <scientist@fb.com>,
	"glider@google.com" <glider@google.com>,
	"andreyknvl@google.com" <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:04:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123150435.GA30459@sasha-lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+YVqFv6hkr+rdoJarS0mx=_eLGaCP1WjgyPH+rpL69yMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:57:02PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:37:01 +0000
> > alexander.levin@verizon.com wrote:
> >>  #define __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)                                      \
> >> +     extern const struct syscall_spec syscall_spec##name;            \
> >>       asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))       \
> >>               __attribute__((alias(__stringify(SyS##name))));         \
> >>       static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));  \
> >>       asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__));      \
> >>       asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))       \
> >>       {                                                               \
> >> -             long ret = SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__));  \
> >> +             long ret;                                               \
> >> +             abispec_check_pre(&syscall_spec##name, __MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__)); \
> >> +             ret = SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__));       \
> >> +             abispec_check_post(&syscall_spec##name, ret, __MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__)); \
> >
> > Do you want this for DEFINE0() too? Or does this not care about system
> > calls with no arguments?
> 
> This should care about syscalls without args:
>  - we still may want to check return values
>  - something like debug tracing would like to print them
>  - there may also be some side effects (or absence of side effects)
> that we may want to check

Yes, agreed, I just missed that detail in my implementation.

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-23 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-16 17:37 [RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification alexander.levin
2016-11-16 17:37 ` [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and syscalls alexander.levin
2016-11-21 14:48   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-11-23 14:59     ` alexander.levin
2016-12-12 10:29       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-12 10:45         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-14 19:46           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-12-14 19:48             ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-04  4:52             ` alexander.levin
2016-12-27 17:23         ` alexander.levin
2016-12-28  7:32           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-11-21 15:41   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-23 15:03     ` alexander.levin
2016-11-23 15:31       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-23 15:33       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-16 17:37 ` [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking alexander.levin
2016-11-21 15:54   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-21 15:57     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-11-23 15:04       ` alexander.levin [this message]
2016-11-16 17:37 ` [RFC 3/3] abi_spec: example spec for open(), placeholder for rest of syscalls alexander.levin
2016-11-16 17:46 ` [RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-21 14:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-11-23 14:36   ` alexander.levin
2016-12-12 10:12     ` Dmitry Vyukov

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