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qemu linux-user doesn't translate host/target data for iovec I/O
When using iovec I/O functions (like `readv`), no data translation happens. I'm hitting this issue with libevent upon constructing a bufferevent over an inotify descriptor, and then building for either ppc64 or s390x (both big-endian) on x86_64 (little-endian) and running resulting code with qemu-ppc64 or qemu-s390x on Gentoo using latest QEMU version available (5.0.0-r2).
The code in question is in https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/master/libtransmission/watchdir-inotify.c (`tr_watchdir_inotify_new`, `tr_watchdir_inotify_on_event`).
While `read` syscall is handled properly, `readv` (which libevent is using in my case) doesn't have any logic to call `host_to_target_data_inotify` or any other translation function, leaving inotify data unchanged (with values in little-endian), which then leads to unit test failures. Quoting `do_syscall1` implementation bits for the reference:
---8<---begin---
case TARGET_NR_read:
if (arg2 == 0 && arg3 == 0) {
return get_errno(safe_read(arg1, 0, 0));
} else {
if (!(p = lock_user(VERIFY_WRITE, arg2, arg3, 0)))
return -TARGET_EFAULT;
ret = get_errno(safe_read(arg1, p, arg3));
if (ret >= 0 &&
fd_trans_host_to_target_data(arg1)) {
ret = fd_trans_host_to_target_data(arg1)(p, ret);
}
unlock_user(p, arg2, ret);
}
return ret;
...
case TARGET_NR_readv:
{
struct iovec *vec = lock_iovec(VERIFY_WRITE, arg2, arg3, 0);
if (vec != NULL) {
ret = get_errno(safe_readv(arg1, vec, arg3));
unlock_iovec(vec, arg2, arg3, 1);
} else {
ret = -host_to_target_errno(errno);
}
}
return ret;
---8<---end---
To reiterate, the issue is not only with `readv` but with other iovec functions as well.
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