With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("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 the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process 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 <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea095 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) <guoren@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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