From ddc65971bb677aa9f6a4c21f76d3133e106f88eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 21:31:48 +0900 Subject: prctl: add PR_GET_AUXV to copy auxv to userspace If a library wants to get information from auxv (for instance, AT_HWCAP/AT_HWCAP2), it has a few options, none of them perfectly reliable or ideal: - Be main or the pre-main startup code, and grub through the stack above main. Doesn't work for a library. - Call libc getauxval. Not ideal for libraries that are trying to be libc-independent and/or don't otherwise require anything from other libraries. - Open and read /proc/self/auxv. Doesn't work for libraries that may run in arbitrarily constrained environments that may not have /proc mounted (e.g. libraries that might be used by an init program or a container setup tool). - Assume you're on the main thread and still on the original stack, and try to walk the stack upwards, hoping to find auxv. Extremely bad idea. - Ask the caller to pass auxv in for you. Not ideal for a user-friendly library, and then your caller may have the same problem. Add a prctl that copies current->mm->saved_auxv to a userspace buffer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d81864a7f7f43bca6afa2a09fc2e850e4050ab42.1680611394.git.josh@joshtriplett.org Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h index 1312a137f7fb..b99c0be72577 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h @@ -290,4 +290,6 @@ struct prctl_mm_map { #define PR_SET_VMA 0x53564d41 # define PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME 0 +#define PR_GET_AUXV 0x41555856 + #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */ -- cgit v1.3