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Re: mmap64 with very large offset broken since glibc 2.26 (MIPS64 n32)



On 17/06/2019 11:59, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Thomas De Schampheleire:
> 
>> El jue., 13 jun. 2019 a las 18:49, Joseph Myers
>> (<joseph@codesourcery.com>) escribió:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>
>>>> IIUC n32 already uses long long for syscall arguments, and it uses the
>>>> mmap syscall with an unshifted offset.
>>>
>>> Yes, the n32 syscall ABI generally matches the function calling ABI, with
>>> 64-bit arguments in a single register.  See the commit message for commit
>>> 5163b4b76f61e361f0f4bbe3b96732b12e5c9b1a for more discussion of the mmap
>>> interfaces for MIPS.
>>
>> Should I open a bugzilla bug to track this further, or do you prefer
>> to continue in this mail thread?
> 
> Both. 8-) Since this is a user-visible bug, we need to track this
> Bugzilla.  But we can discuss the right solution here.
> 
> Would you be able to test a patch if one of us blindly writes one?

I think we just need to move the test of 'if (offset & MMAP_OFF_MASK)'
to inside the patch when building for mmap2 (so it is not used for
mmap).


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