From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2578 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2021 17:20:27 -0000 Received: from mother.openwall.net (195.42.179.200) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Oct 2021 17:20:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 26164 invoked by uid 550); 8 Oct 2021 17:20:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 26122 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2021 17:20:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:20:10 -0400 From: Rich Felker To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com, Michael Forney , ALSA Development Mailing List , Takashi Iwai , Baolin Wang , y2038 Mailman List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mark Brown , Baolin Wang Message-ID: <20211008172010.GG7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20211007160634.GB7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20211007165158.GC7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20211008120609.GE7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v7 8/9] ALSA: add new 32-bit layout for snd_pcm_mmap_status/control On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 02:37:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:06 PM Rich Felker wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 11:24:39AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > I've tried to understand this part of musl's convert_ioctl_struct(), but I just > > > can't figure out whether it does the conversion based the on the layout that > > > is currently used in the kernel, or based on the layout we should have been > > > using, and would use with the above fix. Rich, can you help me here? > > > > If the attempted 64-bit ioctl is missing (ENOTTY), it does the > > conversion to the legacy 32-bit one and retries with that, then > > converts the results back to the 64-bit form. > > I understand that it tries to do that. > > The part that I'm not sure about is which of the two possible > 64-bit forms it's using -- the broken one we have defined in the > kernel headers, or the one we were trying to define but failed. It's attempting to convert the intended format, not the one that the uapi headers defined. That is, it's taking padded-to-64-bit values at offsets 0 and 8 in __snd_pcm_mmap_control64, putting them at offsets 0 and 4 in the 32-bit struct, and padding them back to 64-bit in the result. Since applications would have been compiled with the buggy (unintended) version of the uapi headers, this will not match the application's layout of the struct. I haven't worked through what all the consequences of that are, but I think some fix is needed here in musl regardless of what happens on the kernel side. Rich