From edd3cb05c00a040dc72bed20b14b5ba865188bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Schuster Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 15:09:51 +0200 Subject: copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/cred.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/cred.c') diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 9676965c0981..dbf6b687dc5c 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void) * The new process gets the current process's subjective credentials as its * objective and subjective credentials */ -int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags) +int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, u64 clone_flags) { struct cred *new; int ret; -- cgit v1.2.3