[PATCH v2 0/3] hw_breakpoint: Save privilege of access control via ptrace

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 10:47:59PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> On 6/21/24 15:39, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your feedbacks in the v1 patch.
> > This series is based on 6.10-rc4, cross compile tested only.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, these changes are not relevant with tools/perf,
> > on some archs such as ARM, ARM64 and LoongArch which have privilege
> > level of breakpoint, the initial aim is to make use of the value of
> > ctrl->privilege saved in decode_ctrl_reg() and then remove the check
> > whether bp virtual address is in kernel space to assign value for
> > hw->ctrl.privilege in arch_build_bp_info().
> > 
> > v2:
> >    -- Put the new member "bp_priv" at the end of the uapi
> >       struct perf_event_attr and add PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER9.
> >    -- Update the commit message to make the goal clear.
> > 
> > Tiezhu Yang (3):
> >    perf: Add perf_event_attr::bp_priv
> >    arm: hw_breakpoint: Save privilege of access control via ptrace
> >    arm64: hw_breakpoint: Save privilege of access control via ptrace
> > 
> >   arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c   |  4 +---
> >   arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c          |  2 ++
> >   arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 11 ++---------
> >   arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c        |  2 ++
> >   include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h   |  3 +++
> >   kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c     |  1 +
> >   6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Ping, any more comments? Is it possible to merge this series
> for the coming merge window?

Maybe someone who knows the perf stuff can review it and give an
opinion?

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