In certain scenarios - e.g. seccomp filtering with ERRNO as default action - the system call fails for other reasons than the syscall not being available. The seccomp filter can be configured to store a user-defined error code on return from a blacklisted syscall.
The RFC is this: are there currently any user-space scenarios where it is required that the system call return ENOSYS as error code on failure, no matter the circumstances? I don't want to break userspace requirements. I have not added code to force this error code in situations different than secure_computing failure, in order to keep overhead at a minimum. Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcare...@freescale.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 ++- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S index 59848e5..52e48dd 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S @@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX) b 1b #endif /* CONFIG_44x */ -66: li r3,-ENOSYS +66: +# li r3,-ENOSYS b ret_from_syscall .globl ret_from_fork diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S index e6bfe8e..80db02e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ syscall_dotrace: b .Lsyscall_dotrace_cont syscall_enosys: - li r3,-ENOSYS +# li r3,-ENOSYS b syscall_exit syscall_exit_work: -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev