This series adds support for the clone3 system call to the nios2
architecture. This addresses the build-time warning "warning: clone3()
entry point is missing, please fix" introduced in 505d66d1abfb9
("clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro"). The implementation passes
the relevant clone3 tests of kselftest when applied on top of
next-20250815:
./run_kselftest.sh
TAP version 13
1..4
# selftests: clone3: clone3
ok 1 selftests: clone3: clone3
# selftests: clone3: clone3_clear_sighand
ok 2 selftests: clone3: clone3_clear_sighand
# selftests: clone3: clone3_set_tid
ok 3 selftests: clone3: clone3_set_tid
# selftests: clone3: clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore
ok 4 selftests: clone3: clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore
The series also includes a small patch to kernel/fork.c that ensures
that clone_flags are passed correctly on architectures where unsigned
long is insufficient to store the u64 clone_flags. It is marked as a fix
for stable backporting.
As requested, in v2, this series now further tries to correct this type
error throughout the whole code base. Thus, it now touches a larger
number of subsystems and all architectures.
Therefore, another test was performed for ARCH=x86_64 (as a
representative for 64-bit architectures). Here, the series builds cleanly
without warnings on defconfig with CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y and
CONFIG_SECURITY_TOMOYO=y (to compile-check the LSM-related changes).
The build further successfully passes testing/selftests/clone3 (with the
patch from 20241105062948.1037011-1-zhouyuhang1010(a)163.com to prepare
clone3_cap_checkpoint_restore for compatibility with the newer libcap
version on my system).
Is there any option to further preflight check this patch series via
lkp/KernelCI/etc. for a broader test across architectures, or is this
degree of testing sufficient to eventually get the series merged?
N.B.: The series is not checkpatch clean right now:
- include/linux/cred.h, include/linux/mnt_namespace.h:
function definition arguments without identifier name
- include/trace/events/task.h:
space prohibited after that open parenthesis
I did not fix these warnings to keep my changes minimal and reviewable,
as the issues persist throughout the files and they were not introduced
by me; I only followed the existing code style and just replaced the
types. If desired, I'd be happy to make the changes in a potential v3,
though.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon(a)siemens-energy.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Introduce "Fixes:" and "Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org" where necessary
- Factor out "Fixes:" when adapting the datatype of clone_flags for
easier backports
- Fix additional instances where `unsigned long` clone_flags is used
- Reword commit message to make it clearer that any 32-bit arch is
affected by this bug
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-nios2-implement-clone3-v1-0-1bb24017376a…
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Simon Schuster (4):
copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/loongarch/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/nios2/include/asm/syscalls.h | 1 +
arch/nios2/include/asm/unistd.h | 2 --
arch/nios2/kernel/entry.S | 6 ++++++
arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/nios2/kernel/syscall_table.c | 1 +
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +-
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/shstk.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c | 2 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
block/blk-ioc.c | 2 +-
fs/namespace.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cgroup.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/cred.h | 2 +-
include/linux/iocontext.h | 6 +++---
include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 2 +-
include/linux/mnt_namespace.h | 2 +-
include/linux/nsproxy.h | 2 +-
include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/rseq.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/sched/task.h | 2 +-
include/linux/security.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/sem.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/time_namespace.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/uprobes.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/user_events.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/utsname.h | 4 ++--
include/net/net_namespace.h | 4 ++--
include/trace/events/task.h | 6 +++---
ipc/namespace.c | 2 +-
ipc/sem.c | 2 +-
kernel/cgroup/namespace.c | 2 +-
kernel/cred.c | 2 +-
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++-----
kernel/nsproxy.c | 4 ++--
kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++--
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 ++--
kernel/time/namespace.c | 2 +-
kernel/utsname.c | 2 +-
net/core/net_namespace.c | 2 +-
security/apparmor/lsm.c | 2 +-
security/security.c | 2 +-
security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +-
security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c | 2 +-
68 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 1357b2649c026b51353c84ddd32bc963e8999603
change-id: 20250818-nios2-implement-clone3-7f252c20860b
Best regards,
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Simon Schuster <schuster.simon(a)siemens-energy.com>
Hello,
Henrik notified me that UDF in 5.15 kernel is failing for him, likely
because commit 1ea1cd11c72d ("udf: Fix directory iteration for longer tail
extents") is missing 5.15 stable tree. Basically wherever d16076d9b684b got
backported, 1ea1cd11c72d needs to be backported as well (I'm sorry for
forgetting to add proper Fixes tag back then).
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR