linux-kernelorg-stable/ipc
Simon Schuster edd3cb05c0 copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-01 15:31:34 +02:00
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Makefile
compat.c
ipc_sysctl.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
mq_sysctl.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
mqueue.c mount changes. I've got more stuff in the local tree, but 2025-07-28 10:49:38 -07:00
msg.c ipc/msg: replace one-element array with flexible array member 2024-11-05 17:12:28 -08:00
msgutil.c
namespace.c copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01 15:31:34 +02:00
sem.c copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01 15:31:34 +02:00
shm.c mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare 2025-06-17 13:35:23 +02:00
syscall.c
util.c ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions 2025-01-24 22:47:27 -08:00
util.h