[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86, x32: Use compat shims for io_{setup, submit}" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, x32: Use compat shims for io_{setup,submit}

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e7bef68b5758ff4f174c1134b589eec265e1d6e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 20:43:15 -0400
Subject: x86, x32: Use compat shims for io_{setup,submit}

commit 7fd44dacdd803c0bbf38bf478d51d280902bb0f1 upstream.

The io_setup takes a pointer to a context id of type aio_context_t.
This in turn is typed to a __kernel_ulong_t.  We could tweak the
exported headers to define this as a 64bit quantity for specific
ABIs, but since we already have a 32bit compat shim for the x86 ABI,
let's just re-use that logic.  The libaio package is also written to
expect this as a pointer type, so a compat shim would simplify that.

The io_submit func operates on an array of pointers to iocb structs.
Padding out the array to be 64bit aligned is a huge pain, so convert
it over to the existing compat shim too.

We don't convert io_getevents to the compat func as its only purpose
is to handle the timespec struct, and the x32 ABI uses 64bit times.

With this change, the libaio package can now pass its testsuite when
built for the x32 ABI.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399250595-5005-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index dc97328..0a42b1e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -212,10 +212,10 @@
 203	common	sched_setaffinity	sys_sched_setaffinity
 204	common	sched_getaffinity	sys_sched_getaffinity
 205	64	set_thread_area
-206	common	io_setup		sys_io_setup
+206	64	io_setup		sys_io_setup
 207	common	io_destroy		sys_io_destroy
 208	common	io_getevents		sys_io_getevents
-209	common	io_submit		sys_io_submit
+209	64	io_submit		sys_io_submit
 210	common	io_cancel		sys_io_cancel
 211	64	get_thread_area
 212	common	lookup_dcookie		sys_lookup_dcookie
@@ -356,3 +356,5 @@
 540	x32	process_vm_writev	compat_sys_process_vm_writev
 541	x32	setsockopt		compat_sys_setsockopt
 542	x32	getsockopt		compat_sys_getsockopt
+543	x32	io_setup		compat_sys_io_setup
+544	x32	io_submit		compat_sys_io_submit
--
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