execveat.2: Fix prototype
It's been 6 years since execveat(2) was added to the kernel,
and there's still no glibc wrapper. Let's document the kernel
syscall prototype.
I reported a bug against glibc requesting a wrapper;
when glibc adds the wrapper, this commit should probably be
reverted.
......
.../linux$ grep_syscall execveat
fs/exec.c:2062:
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat,
int, fd, const char __user *, filename,
const char __user *const __user *, argv,
const char __user *const __user *, envp,
int, flags)
fs/exec.c:2083:
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat, int, fd,
const char __user *, filename,
const compat_uptr_t __user *, argv,
const compat_uptr_t __user *, envp,
int, flags)
include/linux/compat.h:815:
asmlinkage long compat_sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
const compat_uptr_t __user *argv,
const compat_uptr_t __user *envp, int flags);
include/linux/syscalls.h:980:
asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
const char __user *const __user *argv,
const char __user *const __user *envp, int flags);
.../linux$
function grep_syscall()
{
if ! [ -v 1 ]; then
>&2 echo "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} <syscall>";
return ${EX_USAGE};
fi
find * -type f \
|grep '\.c$' \
|sort -V \
|xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^\w*SYSCALL_DEFINE.\(${1},.*?\)" \
|sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/';
find * -type f \
|grep '\.[ch]$' \
|sort -V \
|xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^asmlinkage\s+[\w\s]+\**sys_${1}\s*\(.*?\)" \
|sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/';
}
Glibc bug: <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27364>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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