rseq: Remove broken uapi field layout on 32-bit little endian

The rseq rseq_cs.ptr.{ptr32,padding} uapi endianness handling is entirely wrong on 32-bit little endian: a preprocessor logic mistake wrongly uses the big endian field layout on 32-bit little endian architectures. Fortunately, those ptr32 accessors were never used within the kernel, and only meant as a convenience for user-space. Remove those and replace the whole rseq_cs union by a __u64 type, as this is the only thing really needed to express the ABI. Document how 32-bit architectures are meant to interact with this field.

Mathieu Desnoyers committed 4 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/rseq.h+4−16

@@ -105,23 +105,11 @@ struct rseq { · 104 unmodified lines
105	105	* Read and set by the kernel. Set by user-space with single-copy
106	106	* atomicity semantics. This field should only be updated by the
107	107	* thread which registered this data structure. Aligned on 64-bit.
	108	+ *
	109	+ * 32-bit architectures should update the low order bits of the
	110	+ * rseq_cs field, leaving the high order bits initialized to 0.
108	111	*/
109		− union {
110		− __u64 ptr64;
111		−#ifdef __LP64__
112		− __u64 ptr;
113		−#else
114		− struct {
115		−#if (defined(__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)) \|\| defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
116		− __u32 padding; /* Initialized to zero. */
117		− __u32 ptr32;
118		−#else /* LITTLE */
119		− __u32 ptr32;
120		− __u32 padding; /* Initialized to zero. */
121		−#endif /* ENDIAN */
122		− } ptr;
123		−#endif
124		− } rseq_cs;
	112	+ __u64 rseq_cs;
125	113
126	114	/*
127	115	* Restartable sequences flags field.