Preserve syscall flags for dynamically loaded syscalls
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Authored by guest-svmhdvn on Jul 13 2017, 12:38 AM.

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rS320982: Correct sysent flags for dynamically loaded syscalls.

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Using the https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/ suite, the PosixMqueue.CapModeForked test was failing due to an ECAPMODE after calling kmq_notify(). On further inspection, the following code from sys/kern/uipc_mqueue.c initialized the dynamically loaded syscall entry with sy_flags zeroed out:

static struct syscall_helper_data mq_syscalls[] = {
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_open),
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_setattr),
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_timedsend),
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_timedreceive),
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_notify),
	SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(kmq_unlink),
	SYSCALL_INIT_LAST
};

Not sure if this is the right way to go about this, please let me know.

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guest-svmhdvn created this revision.Jul 13 2017, 12:38 AM

I think that the idea of the fix is sound, but technically I do not like it. Why sy_flags is copied from the bogus main syscall table into new sysent, while other fields are copied from the module-provided sysents ?

IMO what should be done is module sysent entries fixed to provide correct sy_flags. To achieve this, you might need to add e.g. SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER_F) macro which would take sy_flags argument in addition to the argument already taken by the SYSCALL_INIT_HELPER(), and initialize modules' syscall_helper_data tables with the correct flags.

Changed module syscall init helpers to initialize flags

In D11576#239700, @smahadevan_freebsdfoundation.org wrote:

Changed module syscall init helpers to initialize flags

This looks good. Two more notes:

compat32 helpers need same treatment
I suggest to add a comment to capabilities.conf around the affected syscalls so that it is clear that flags might come from other place