tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c

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System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c
Extension
.c
Size
2121 bytes
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85
Domain
Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket
tools
Inferred role
Support Tooling And Documentation: syscall or user/kernel boundary
Status
core implementation candidate

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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
 * syscall_nt.c - checks syscalls with NT set
 * Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Andrew Lutomirski
 *
 * Some obscure user-space code requires the ability to make system calls
 * with FLAGS.NT set.  Make sure it works.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#include "helpers.h"

static unsigned int nerrs;

static void sigtrap(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx_void)
{
}

static void do_it(unsigned long extraflags)
{
	unsigned long flags;

	set_eflags(get_eflags() | extraflags);
	syscall(SYS_getpid);
	flags = get_eflags();
	set_eflags(X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED);
	if ((flags & extraflags) == extraflags) {
		printf("[OK]\tThe syscall worked and flags are still set\n");
	} else {
		printf("[FAIL]\tThe syscall worked but flags were cleared (flags = 0x%lx but expected 0x%lx set)\n",
		       flags, extraflags);
		nerrs++;
	}
}

int main(void)
{
	printf("[RUN]\tSet NT and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet AC and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_AC);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet NT|AC and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT | X86_EFLAGS_AC);

	/*
	 * Now try it again with TF set -- TF forces returns via IRET in all
	 * cases except non-ptregs-using 64-bit full fast path syscalls.
	 */

	sethandler(SIGTRAP, sigtrap, 0);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet TF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_TF);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet NT|TF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT | X86_EFLAGS_TF);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet AC|TF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_TF);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet NT|AC|TF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT | X86_EFLAGS_AC | X86_EFLAGS_TF);

	/*
	 * Now try DF.  This is evil and it's plausible that we will crash
	 * glibc, but glibc would have to do something rather surprising
	 * for this to happen.
	 */
	printf("[RUN]\tSet DF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_DF);

	printf("[RUN]\tSet TF|DF and issue a syscall\n");
	do_it(X86_EFLAGS_TF | X86_EFLAGS_DF);

	return nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1;
}

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