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

Venkat Rao Bagalkote <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 10:02:06 +0530
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.audit,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/07/26 7:44 am, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>
> On 7/1/26 12:41 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM Madhavan Srinivasan 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 5/13/26 10:05 AM, Harsh Prateek Bora wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> My bad, this is a miss from my end.
>>> Venkat is already on this and will update the results here.
>> Do we have an update on this?  Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall
>> seeing any test results.
> Venkat, did run the test but I guess he missed to respond here,
> Details of his test run that he shared me in the internal chat from 
> May 13.


Sorry, My bad. I missed updating here. Yes, this was tested in May. 
Please let me know, if a re-run is required?

Regards,

Venkat.

>
> backlog_wait_time_actual_reset/test .. ok
> bpf/test ............................. ok
> exec_execve/test ..................... ok
> exec_name/test ....................... ok
> fanotify/test ........................ ok
> field_compare/test ................... ok
> file_create/test ..................... ok
> file_delete/test ..................... ok
> file_permission/test ................. ok
> file_rename/test ..................... ok
> filter_exclude/test .................. ok
> filter_exit/test ..................... ok
> filter_saddr_fam/test ................ ok
> filter_sessionid/test ................ ok
> io_uring/test ........................ ok
> login_tty/test ....................... ok
> lost_reset/test ...................... ok
> netfilter_pkt/test ................... Can't exec "nc": No such file 
> or directory at netfilter_pkt/test line 83.
>
> Venkat, can you please re-run if possible and paste the log here.
>
> Thanks
> Maddy
>
>