Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC

Harsh Prateek Bora <[email protected]> Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:59 +0530
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.audit,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+ Ritesh

Hi Venkat,

On 11/03/26 12:49 am, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
>>
>> Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
>> targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
>> support for bi-arch like powerpc.
>>
>> Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
>> added generic support for bi-arch.
>>
>> Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.
>>
>> With this change generated text is similar.
>>
>> Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing filter_exclude/test
>> is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306115350-ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67@linutronix.de/
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> Venkat, a test result with https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite would be appreciated.
> 
> Yes, I'd like to see confirmation that the audit test suite runs clean
> on ppc systems with this patch applied, and unfortunately without a
> ppc system I have no way to test this myself.

Is it possible to include this test suite in the IBM CI ?

Thanks
Harsh
> 
>> v3: Rebased on v7.0-rc1
>>
>> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a4b3951d1191d4183d92a07a6097566bde60d00a.1629812058.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/Kconfig                |  5 +-
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd32.h |  7 +++
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile        |  3 -
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/audit.c         | 87 -----------------------------
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/compat_audit.c  | 49 ----------------
>>   5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd32.h
>>   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/audit.c
>>   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/compat_audit.c
>