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JohnFound



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JohnFound 28 Mar 2011, 17:41
Did someone worked with futex syscall (sys_futex = $f0).
There is something wrong with them - According to the man page, the function have 6 arguments and then it expects eax=$f0 and ebx=ptr to arguments.
I am using the stack:
Code:
        push    0 0 0 0
        push    FUTEX_WAIT
        push    __TimerExpiredFutex

        mov     eax, sys_futex
        mov     ebx, esp
        int $80
        add     esp, 6*4
    


_TimerExpidedFutex is properly aligned (on 32bit) but the function still returns: ENOSYS = 38 ; Function not implemented
But I am sure it should be implemented.

Any ideas?
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LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug


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LocoDelAssembly 28 Mar 2011, 21:51
Perhaps it is not the problem but are you sure you have to use so few registers to pass the parameters?

If you are following this prototype:
Code:
int sys_futex(void *futex, int op, int val, const struct timespec *timeout, void *futex2, int val3);    


Then I would try this:
Code:
mov eax, sys_futex 
mov ebx, futex
mov ecx, [op]
mov edx, [val]
mov esi, timeout
mov edi, futex2
mov ebp, [val3]
int $80
    


[edit]The 6th parameter goes in EBP, not the stack, so I've corrected that[/edit]
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JohnFound 28 Mar 2011, 22:08
I know that when parameters are up to 5 they are placed in ebx, ecx, edx, esi and edi. With 6 or more parameters - ebx contains pointer to memory that contains parameters. In both cases eax contains the number of the system function.
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LocoDelAssembly
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LocoDelAssembly 28 Mar 2011, 22:27
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-4.html wrote:
4.3 System call parameters

On i386, the parameters of a system call are transported via registers. The system call number goes into %eax, the first parameter in %ebx, the second in %ecx, the third in %edx, the fourth in %esi, the fifth in %edi, the sixth in %ebp.
Ancient history

Earlier versions of Linux could handle only four or five system call parameters, and therefore the system calls select() (5 parameters) and mmap() (6 parameters) used to have a single parameter that was a pointer to a parameter block in memory. Since Linux 1.3.0 five parameters are supported (and the earlier select with memory block was renamed old_select), and since Linux 2.3.31 six parameters are supported (and the earlier mmap with memory block was succeeded by the new mmap2).


I think your function was added after all these changes so probably you should use registers only. Also in http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S;h=518bb99c339480820fc3995b1456d29704d67f07;hb=HEAD#l386 you'll see EBP as well (although I'm not so sure if this is actual proof or if something happens earlier to get everything mapped as the comments say)
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JohnFound 29 Mar 2011, 04:42
I see now. And I understand why mmap2 didn't work, so I was forced to use old one. Smile
Thanks for the help.
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