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powerpc/kernel: Switch to using MAX_ERRNO
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Currently on powerpc we have our own #define for the highest (negative)
errno value, called _LAST_ERRNO. This is defined to be 516, for reasons
which are not clear.

The generic code, and x86, use MAX_ERRNO, which is defined to be 4095.

In particular seccomp uses MAX_ERRNO to restrict the value that a
seccomp filter can return.

Currently with the mismatch between _LAST_ERRNO and MAX_ERRNO, a seccomp
tracer wanting to return 600, expecting it to be seen as an error, would
instead find on powerpc that userspace sees a successful syscall with a
return value of 600.

To avoid this inconsistency, switch powerpc to use MAX_ERRNO.

We are somewhat confident that generic syscalls that can return a
non-error value above negative MAX_ERRNO have already been updated to
use force_successful_syscall_return().

I have also checked all the powerpc specific syscalls, and believe that
none of them expect to return a non-error value between -MAX_ERRNO and
-516. So this change should be safe ...

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Michael Ellerman committed Jul 29, 2015
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
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#undef EDEADLOCK
#define EDEADLOCK 58 /* File locking deadlock error */

#define _LAST_ERRNO 516

#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H */
3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
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*/

#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/sys.h>
#include <linux/threads.h>
#include <asm/reg.h>
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SYNC
MTMSRD(r10)
lwz r9,TI_FLAGS(r12)
li r8,-_LAST_ERRNO
li r8,-MAX_ERRNO
andi. r0,r9,(_TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE|_TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_USER_WORK_MASK|_TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK)
bne- syscall_exit_work
cmplw 0,r3,r8
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
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*/

#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
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#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */

ld r9,TI_FLAGS(r12)
li r11,-_LAST_ERRNO
li r11,-MAX_ERRNO
andi. r0,r9,(_TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE|_TIF_SINGLESTEP|_TIF_USER_WORK_MASK|_TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK)
bne- syscall_exit_work
cmpld r3,r11
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beq+ 0f
REST_NVGPRS(r1)
b 2f
0: cmpld r3,r11 /* r10 is -LAST_ERRNO */
0: cmpld r3,r11 /* r11 is -MAX_ERRNO */
blt+ 1f
andi. r0,r9,_TIF_NOERROR
bne- 1f
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