[LTP] [PATCH] lib: detect ARM64 32-bit compat mode as 64-bit kernel
Steve Muckle
smuckle.linux@gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 23:14:30 CEST 2017
ARM64 (aarch64) identifies itself in 32-bit compatibility mode as armv8l
or armv8b depending on endianness. Detect these modes as a 64-bit
kernel.
This fixes the following issues on ARM64:
- mmapstress03 segfaults in 32-bit compat mode due to a larger than expected
address space
- cve-2016-4997 which was a vulnerability in a 32-bit compat syscall, but the
test does not correctly identify 32-bit compat and wouldn't run
- vma03 which only runs on 32-bit arches, it would incorrectly be run
on arm64 32-bit mode and fail
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@gmail.com>
---
Tested on armv8l, aarch64, x86-64 and x86-64 32-bit compat.
lib/tst_kernel.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/tst_kernel.c b/lib/tst_kernel.c
index 71303fc36..fd648b1f2 100644
--- a/lib/tst_kernel.c
+++ b/lib/tst_kernel.c
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ int tst_kernel_bits(void)
kernel_bits = strstr(buf.machine, "64") ? 64 : 32;
+ /*
+ * ARM64 (aarch64) defines 32-bit compatibility modes as
+ * armv8l and armv8b (little and big endian).
+ */
+ if (!strcmp(buf.machine, "armv8l") || !strcmp(buf.machine, "armv8b"))
+ kernel_bits = 64;
+
tst_resm(TINFO, "uname.machine=%s kernel is %ibit",
buf.machine, kernel_bits);
--
2.14.0.rc1.383.gd1ce394fe2-goog
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