bug#45716: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: qemu: Fix ioclt(…, SIOCGIFCONF, …) for emulated 64 bit architectures.

[Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>]

* gnu/packages/virtualization.scm (qemu): Add a snippet to fix a bug in the
do_ioctl_ifconf() function of qemu to make ioclt(…, SIOCGIFCONF, …) work for
emulated 64 bit architectures.

The sizeof(struct ifreq) is 40 for 64 bit and 32 for 32 bit architectures.
This structure contains a union of other structures, of which struct ifmap
is the biggest for 64 bit architectures. Calling ioclt(…, SIOCGIFCONF, …)
fills a struct sockaddr of that union, and do_ioctl_ifconf() only considered
that struct sockaddr for the size of the union, which has the same size as
struct ifmap on 32 bit architectures. So do_ioctl_ifconf() assumed a wrong
size of 32 for struct ifreq instead of the correct size of 40 on 64 bit
architectures.

The fix makes do_ioctl_ifconf() handle struct ifmap as the biggest part of
the union, treating struct ifreq with the correct size.

This fixes (@ (guix build syscalls) network-interface-names) when used in
emulated 64 bit architectures.
---
  gnu/packages/virtualization.scm | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
index 10eae8ea7d..e773fe357d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
@@ -140,7 +140,22 @@
                (sha256
                 (base32
                  "1rd41wwlvp0vpialjp2czs6i3lsc338xc72l3zkbb7ixjfslw5y9"))
-              (patches (search-patches "qemu-build-info-manual.patch"))))
+              (patches (search-patches "qemu-build-info-manual.patch"))
+              (modules '((guix build utils)))
+              (snippet
+               '(begin
+                  ;; Fix a bug in the do_ioctl_ifconf() function of qemu to
+                  ;; make ioclt(…, SIOCGIFCONF, …) work for emulated 64 bit
+                  ;; architectures.  The size of struct ifreq is handled
+                  ;; incorrectly.
+                  ;; https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg01545.html
+                  (substitute* '("linux-user/syscall.c")
+                    (("^([[:blank:]]*)const argtype ifreq_arg_type.*$" line indent)
+                     (string-append line indent
+                                    "const argtype ifreq_max_type[] = { MK_STRUCT(STRUCT_ifmap_ifreq) };\n"))
+                    (("^([[:blank:]]*)target_ifreq_size[[:blank:]]=.*$" _ indent)
+                     (string-append indent "target_ifreq_size = thunk_type_size(ifreq_max_type, 0);")))
+                  #t))))
      (outputs '("out" "doc"))            ;4.7 MiB of HTML docs
      (build-system gnu-build-system)
      (arguments
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2.29.2