powerpc/syscall: Fix syscall skip handling for seccomp and ptrace

After enabling GENERIC_ENTRY on PowerPC, syscall_enter_from_user_mode()
returns -1 as a sentinel to signal that seccomp or ptrace has intercepted
the syscall and already set a return value via syscall_set_return_value().
system_call_exception() was not handling this sentinel, and since -1UL
is >= NR_syscalls, the code fell into the out-of-range path and returned
-ENOSYS, overwriting the errno already placed in regs->gpr[3].

The naive fix of checking r0 == -1L before the NR_syscalls bounds check
is ambiguous: a user legitimately calling syscall(-1) also produces r0 ==
-1L, and a tracer intercepting such a call would have its injected return
value silently discarded.

Fix this by introducing a thread flag that is set whenever
syscall_set_return_value() explicitly updates the return value. In
system_call_exception(), check and clear this flag before dispatching
the syscall, and return the preset value directly when it is present.
This ensures that an explicitly supplied return value always suppresses
syscall execution, regardless of the syscall number.

This handles all seccomp actions correctly:

  - SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE (no tracer), SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF:
    all call syscall_set_return_value(), flag is set, injected value returned.
  - SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, SECCOMP_RET_KILL: call syscall_rollback() and deliver
    a signal; flag is not set, but the process is dying so the return value
    is irrelevant.

The fix covers both ppc32 and ppc64 with no #ifdefs.

Fixes: bee25f97ad ("powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature")
Reported-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ajpp-_XnbF3UTM_E@kunlun.suse.cz/
Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731081521.1852133-1-mkchauras@gmail.com
This commit is contained in:
Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)
2026-07-31 13:45:21 +05:30
committed by Madhavan Srinivasan
parent fb43ba4256
commit 69cb2be898
3 changed files with 10 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ static inline void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task,
regs->gpr[3] = val;
}
}
/*
* Mark that a return value has been explicitly set by seccomp or
* ptrace so that system_call_exception() can skip the syscall
* unconditionally, even when the user requested syscall(-1).
*/
set_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_RET);
}
static inline void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task,

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@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
#endif
#define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG 19 /* true if poll_idle() is polling TIF_NEED_RESCHED */
#define TIF_32BIT 20 /* 32 bit binary */
#define TIF_SYSCALL_RET 21 /* syscall error value set */
/* as above, but as bit values */
#define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE (1<<TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)

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@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long r0)
add_random_kstack_offset();
r0 = syscall_enter_from_user_mode(regs, r0);
if (unlikely(test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_RET)))
return syscall_get_error(current, regs);
if (unlikely(r0 >= NR_syscalls)) {
if (unlikely(trap_is_unsupported_scv(regs))) {
/* Unsupported scv vector */