Now that support for 32-bit x86 has been removed, we don't have to worry
about the top half of `off_t`/`u64` values being chopped off when we try
to pass them in registers. Therefore, we no longer need the workaround
of pointers to stack-allocated values to syscalls.
Note that this changes the system call ABI, so statically linked
programs will have to be re-linked.
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This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This achieves two things:
- Programs can now intentionally perform arbitrary syscalls by calling
syscall(). This allows us to work on things like syscall fuzzing.
- It restricts the ability of userspace to make syscalls to a single
4KB page of code. In order to call the kernel directly, an attacker
must now locate this page and call through it.
