Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de writes:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:
I suspect you want to use __kernel_ulong_t here instead of a raw unsigned long. If nothing else it seems inconsistent to use typedefs in one half of the structure and no typedefs in the other half.
Good catch, there is definitely something wrong here, but I think using __kernel_ulong_t for all members would also be wrong, as that still changes the layout on x32, which effectively is
struct msqid64_ds { ipc64_perm msg_perm; u64 msg_stime; u32 __unused1; /* 32 bit implict padding */ u64 msg_rtime; u32 __unused2; /* 32 bit implict padding */ u64 msg_ctime; u32 __unused3; /* 32 bit implict padding */ __kernel_pid_t shm_cpid; /* pid of creator */ __kernel_pid_t shm_lpid; /* pid of last operator */ .... };
The choices here would be to either use a mix of __kernel_ulong_t and unsigned long, or taking the x32 version back into arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ so the generic version at least makes some sense.
I can't use __kernel_time_t for the lower half on 32-bit since it really should be unsigned.
After thinking about it some more, I conclude that the structure is simply incorrect on x32: The __kernel_ulong_t usage was introduced in 2013 in commit b9cd5ca22d67 ("uapi: Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds") and apparently was correct initially as __BITS_PER_LONG evaluated to 64, but it broke with commit f4b4aae18288 ("x86/headers/uapi: Fix __BITS_PER_LONG value for x32 builds") that changed the value of __BITS_PER_LONG and introduced the extra padding in 2015.
The same change apparently also broke a lot of other definitions, e.g.
$ echo "#include <linux/types.h>" | gcc -mx32 -E -xc - | grep -A3 __kernel_size_t typedef unsigned int __kernel_size_t; typedef int __kernel_ssize_t; typedef int __kernel_ptrdiff_t;
Those used to be defined as 'unsigned long long' and 'long long' respectively, so now all kernel interfaces using those on x32 became incompatible!
That seems like a real mess.
Is this just for the uapi header as seen by userspace? I expect we are using the a normal kernel interface with 64bit longs and 64bit pointers when we build the kernel.
If this is just a header as seen from userspace mess it seems unfortunate but fixable.
Eric