on all mips variants, Linux did (and maybe still does) have some
syscall return paths that wrongly return both the error flag in r7 and
a negated error code in r2. in particular this happened for at least
some causes of ENOSYS.
add an extra check to only negate the error code if it's positive to
begin with.
bug report and concept for patch by Andreas Dröscher.
effectivly revert commit ddc7c4f936
which was wrong; it caused a major regression on Linux versions prior
to 2.6.36. old kernels did not properly preserve r2 across syscall
restart, and instead restarted with the instruction right before
syscall, imposing a contract that the previous instruction must load
r2 from an immediate or a register (or memory) not clobbered by the
syscall.
since other changes were made since, including removal of the struct
stat conversion that was replaced by separate struct kstat, this is
not a direct revert, only a functional one.
the "0"(r2) input constraint added back seems useless/erroneous, but
without it most gcc versions (seems to be all prior to 9.x) fail to
honor the output register binding for r2. this seems to be a variant
of gcc bug #87733. further changes should be made later if a better
workaround is found, but this one has been working since 2012. it
seems this issue was encountered but misidentified then, when it
inspired commit 4221f154ff.
mips r6 (an incompatible isa from traditional mips) removes the hi and
lo registers used for mul/div results. older gcc versions accepted
them in the clobber list for asm, but their presence is incorrect and
breaks on later versions.
in the process of fixing this, the clobber list for 32-bit mips
syscalls has been deduplicated via a macro like on mips64 and n32.
without this, the SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options would
stop working on pre-5.1 kernels after time_t is switched to 64-bit and
their values are changed to the new time64 versions.
new code is written such that it's statically unreachable on 64-bit
archs, and on existing 32-bit archs until the macro values are changed
to activate 64-bit time_t.
now that we have a kstat structure decoupled from the public struct
stat, we can just use the broken kernel structures directly and let
the code in fstatat do the translation.
ever since inline syscalls were added for (o32) mips in commit
328810d325, the asm has nonsensically
loaded the syscall number, rather than taking $2 as an input
constraint to let the compiler load it. commit
cfc09b1ecf improved on this somewhat by
allowing a constant syscall number to propagate into an immediate, but
missed that the whole operation made no sense.
now, only $4, $5, $6, $8, and $9 are potential input-only registers.
$2 is always input and output, and $7 is both when it's an argument,
otherwise output-only. previously, $7 was treated as an input (with a
"1" constraint matching its output position) even when it was not an
input, which was arguably undefined behavior (asm input from
indeterminate value). this is corrected.
this patch is not purely non-functional changes, since before, $8 and
$9 were wrongly in the clobberlist for syscalls with fewer than 5 or 6
arguments. of course it's impossible for syscalls to have different
clobbers depending on their number of arguments. the clobberlist for
the recently-added 5- and 6-argument forms was correct, and for the 0-
to 4-argument forms was erroneously copied from the mips o32 ABI where
the additional arguments had to be passed on the stack.
in making this change, I reviewed the kernel sources, and $8 and $9
are always saved for 64-bit kernels since they're part of the syscall
argument list for n32 and n64 ABIs.
n32 and n64 ABIs add new argument registers vs o32, so that passing on
the stack is not necessary, so it's not clear why the 5- and
6-argument versions were special-cased to begin with; it seems to have
been pattern-copying from arch/mips (o32).
i've treated the new argument registers like the first 4 in terms of
clobber status (non-clobbered). hopefully this is correct.
at one point, clang reportedly failed to support the asm register
constraints needed for inline syscalls. versions of clang that old
have much bigger problems that preclude using them to compile musl
libc.
mips64 requires 'struct stat' conversion due to incorrect 32-bit
fields where time_t should be in the kernel version of the structure.
syscall_arch.h already performed the correct translation for stat,
fstat, and lstat syscalls, but omitted special handling for fstatat.
Rich Felker