RE: in_compat_syscall() on x86

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Andy Lutomirski
> Sent: 04 January 2021 23:04
...
> >> The x32 system calls have their own system call table and it would be
> >> trivial to set a flag like TS_COMPAT when looking up a system call from
> >> that table.  I expect such a change would be purely in the noise.
> >
> > Certainly a write of 0/1/2 into a dirtied cache line of 'current'
> > could easily cost absolutely nothing.
> > Especially if current has already been read.
> >
> > I also wondered about resetting it to zero when an x32 system call
> > exits (rather than entry to a 64bit one).
> >
> > For ia32 the flag is set (with |=) on every syscall entry.
> > Even though I'm pretty sure it can only change during exec.
> 
> It can change for every syscall. I have tests that do this.

Do they still work?
I don't think the ia32 flag is cleared anywhere.

So a 64bit writev() might to badly wrong after an ia32 syscall.

The x32 flag is different, the syscalls just have different numbers.

	David

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