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Release 4.10 tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c

/*
 * syscall_nt.c - checks syscalls with NT set
 * Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Andrew Lutomirski
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
 * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 *
 * 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 <asm/processor-flags.h>

#ifdef __x86_64__

# define WIDTH "q"
#else

# define WIDTH "l"
#endif


static unsigned int nerrs;


static unsigned long get_eflags(void) { unsigned long eflags; asm volatile ("pushf" WIDTH "\n\tpop" WIDTH " %0" : "=rm" (eflags)); return eflags; }

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static void set_eflags(unsigned long eflags) { asm volatile ("push" WIDTH " %0\n\tpopf" WIDTH : : "rm" (eflags) : "flags"); }

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static void sethandler(int sig, void (*handler)(int, siginfo_t *, void *), int flags) { struct sigaction sa; memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa)); sa.sa_sigaction = handler; sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | flags; sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask); if (sigaction(sig, &sa, 0)) err(1, "sigaction"); }

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

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static void do_it(unsigned long extraflags) { unsigned long flags; set_eflags(get_eflags() | extraflags); syscall(SYS_getpid); flags = get_eflags(); 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++; } }

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int main(void) { printf("[RUN]\tSet NT and issue a syscall\n"); do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT); /* * 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 NT|TF and issue a syscall\n"); do_it(X86_EFLAGS_NT | X86_EFLAGS_TF); return nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1; }

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