NAME

pinsyscall — specify the call stub for a specific system call

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

int
pinsyscall(int syscall, void *start, size_t len);

DESCRIPTION

The pinsyscall() system call specifies the start to start + len range in the address space where the call stub for the specified syscall resides. This range is typically under 80 bytes long, and varies by architecture.

Only the SYS_execve system call is currently supported. The shared library linker ld.so automatically tells the kernel about SYS_execve at startup. For static binaries, libc initialization performs the same action.

Once the kernel knows the specific location in the address space where that system call must be entered from, any attempt to use a system-call entry instruction to perform the specified syscall from a different address range will deliver SIGABRT.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

pinsyscall() will fail if:

[EINVAL]

Unsupported syscall.

[EFAULT]

The range between start and start + len is not in the address space.

[EPERM]

The range for the specified syscall has been previously set.

HISTORY

The pinsyscall() system call first appeared in OpenBSD 7.3.