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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2024-05-08 17:13:34 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2024-07-10 14:23:38 +0200
commit505d66d1abfb90853e24ab6cbdf83b611473d6fc (patch)
tree3af6512a4ddedb9fe9bba6217ab9621eb8d32a01 /kernel/fork.c
parentkbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers (diff)
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clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro
When clone3() was introduced, it was not obvious how each architecture deals with setting up the stack and keeping the register contents in a fork()-like system call, so this was left for the architecture maintainers to implement, with __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 defined by those that already implement it. Five years later, we still have a few architectures left that are missing clone3(), and the macro keeps getting in the way as it's fundamentally different from all the other __ARCH_WANT_SYS_* macros that are meant to provide backwards-compatibility with applications using older syscalls that are no longer provided by default. Address this by reversing the polarity of the macro, adding an __ARCH_BROKEN_SYS_CLONE3 macro to all architectures that don't already provide the syscall, and remove __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 from all the other ones. Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 99076dbe27d8..02f322424c49 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2941,8 +2941,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
}
#endif
-#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
-
noinline static int copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
struct clone_args __user *uargs,
size_t usize)
@@ -3086,6 +3084,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clone3, struct clone_args __user *, uargs, size_t, size)
struct kernel_clone_args kargs;
pid_t set_tid[MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL];
+#ifdef __ARCH_BROKEN_SYS_CLONE3
+#warning clone3() entry point is missing, please fix
+ return -ENOSYS;
+#endif
+
kargs.set_tid = set_tid;
err = copy_clone_args_from_user(&kargs, uargs, size);
@@ -3097,7 +3100,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clone3, struct clone_args __user *, uargs, size_t, size)
return kernel_clone(&kargs);
}
-#endif
void walk_process_tree(struct task_struct *top, proc_visitor visitor, void *data)
{