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authorJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>2015-06-25 15:01:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-25 17:00:38 -0700
commit3033f14ab78c326871a4902591c2518410add24a (patch)
tree8e0bfd115933b299cafc1185b8e0c6882d361503 /kernel
parent8c7fbe5795a016259445a61e072eb0118aaf6a61 (diff)
clone: support passing tls argument via C rather than pt_regs magic
clone has some of the quirkiest syscall handling in the kernel, with a pile of special cases, historical curiosities, and architecture-specific calling conventions. In particular, clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts a parameter "tls" that the C entry point completely ignores and some assembly entry points overwrite; instead, the low-level arch-specific code pulls the tls parameter out of the arch-specific register captured as part of pt_regs on entry to the kernel. That's a massive hack, and it makes the arch-specific code only work when called via the specific existing syscall entry points; because of this hack, any new clone-like system call would have to accept an identical tls argument in exactly the same arch-specific position, rather than providing a unified system call entry point across architectures. The first patch allows architectures to handle the tls argument via normal C parameter passing, if they opt in by selecting HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. The second patch makes 32-bit and 64-bit x86 opt into this. These two patches came out of the clone4 series, which isn't ready for this merge window, but these first two cleanup patches were entirely uncontroversial and have acks. I'd like to go ahead and submit these two so that other architectures can begin building on top of this and opting into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. However, I'm also happy to wait and send these through the next merge window (along with v3 of clone4) if anyone would prefer that. This patch (of 2): clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts an argument to set the thread-local storage area for the new thread. sys_clone declares an int argument tls_val in the appropriate point in the argument list (based on the various CLONE_BACKWARDS variants), but doesn't actually use or pass along that argument. Instead, sys_clone calls do_fork, which calls copy_process, which calls the arch-specific copy_thread, and copy_thread pulls the corresponding syscall argument out of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry (knowing what argument of clone that architecture passes tls in). Apart from being awful and inscrutable, that also only works because only one code path into copy_thread can pass the CLONE_SETTLS flag, and that code path comes from sys_clone with its architecture-specific argument-passing order. This prevents introducing a new version of the clone system call without propagating the same architecture-specific position of the tls argument. However, there's no reason to pull the argument out of pt_regs when sys_clone could just pass it down via C function call arguments. Introduce a new CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS for architectures to opt into, and a new copy_thread_tls that accepts the tls parameter as an additional unsigned long (syscall-argument-sized) argument. Change sys_clone's tls argument to an unsigned long (which does not change the ABI), and pass that down to copy_thread_tls. Architectures that don't opt into copy_thread_tls will continue to ignore the C argument to sys_clone in favor of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry, and thus will be unable to introduce new versions of the clone syscall. Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c48
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0bb88b555550..4c95cb34243c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
unsigned long stack_size,
int __user *child_tidptr,
struct pid *pid,
- int trace)
+ int trace,
+ unsigned long tls)
{
int retval;
struct task_struct *p;
@@ -1447,7 +1448,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
retval = copy_io(clone_flags, p);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
- retval = copy_thread(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p);
+ retval = copy_thread_tls(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p, tls);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
@@ -1659,7 +1660,7 @@ static inline void init_idle_pids(struct pid_link *links)
struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
{
struct task_struct *task;
- task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, 0, NULL, &init_struct_pid, 0);
+ task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, 0, NULL, &init_struct_pid, 0, 0);
if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
init_idle_pids(task->pids);
init_idle(task, cpu);
@@ -1674,11 +1675,12 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
* It copies the process, and if successful kick-starts
* it and waits for it to finish using the VM if required.
*/
-long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
+long _do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
unsigned long stack_start,
unsigned long stack_size,
int __user *parent_tidptr,
- int __user *child_tidptr)
+ int __user *child_tidptr,
+ unsigned long tls)
{
struct task_struct *p;
int trace = 0;
@@ -1703,7 +1705,7 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
}
p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size,
- child_tidptr, NULL, trace);
+ child_tidptr, NULL, trace, tls);
/*
* Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
* might get invalid after that point, if the thread exits quickly.
@@ -1744,20 +1746,34 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
return nr;
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
+/* For compatibility with architectures that call do_fork directly rather than
+ * using the syscall entry points below. */
+long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
+ unsigned long stack_start,
+ unsigned long stack_size,
+ int __user *parent_tidptr,
+ int __user *child_tidptr)
+{
+ return _do_fork(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size,
+ parent_tidptr, child_tidptr, 0);
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* Create a kernel thread.
*/
pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
- return do_fork(flags|CLONE_VM|CLONE_UNTRACED, (unsigned long)fn,
- (unsigned long)arg, NULL, NULL);
+ return _do_fork(flags|CLONE_VM|CLONE_UNTRACED, (unsigned long)fn,
+ (unsigned long)arg, NULL, NULL, 0);
}
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_FORK
SYSCALL_DEFINE0(fork)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
- return do_fork(SIGCHLD, 0, 0, NULL, NULL);
+ return _do_fork(SIGCHLD, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
#else
/* can not support in nommu mode */
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1768,8 +1784,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(fork)
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_VFORK
SYSCALL_DEFINE0(vfork)
{
- return do_fork(CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, 0,
- 0, NULL, NULL);
+ return _do_fork(CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, 0,
+ 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
}
#endif
@@ -1777,27 +1793,27 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(vfork)
#ifdef CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
- int, tls_val,
+ unsigned long, tls,
int __user *, child_tidptr)
#elif defined(CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS2)
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, newsp, unsigned long, clone_flags,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
int __user *, child_tidptr,
- int, tls_val)
+ unsigned long, tls)
#elif defined(CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3)
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
int, stack_size,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
int __user *, child_tidptr,
- int, tls_val)
+ unsigned long, tls)
#else
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
int __user *, parent_tidptr,
int __user *, child_tidptr,
- int, tls_val)
+ unsigned long, tls)
#endif
{
- return do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, 0, parent_tidptr, child_tidptr);
+ return _do_fork(clone_flags, newsp, 0, parent_tidptr, child_tidptr, tls);
}
#endif