[PATCH v4 2/2] riscv: selftests: Add a ptrace test to verify syscall parameter modification

[Celeste Liu]

On 2025-01-10 11:34, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:21:59PM +0800, Celeste Liu wrote:
>>
>> On 2024-12-26 21:35, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 06:52:52PM +0800, Celeste Liu wrote:
>>>> This test checks that orig_a0 allows a syscall argument to be modified,
>>>> and that changing a0 does not change the syscall argument.
>>>>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie at rivosinc.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie at rivosinc.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Celeste Liu <uwu at coelacanthus.name>
>>> [...]
>>>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace.c b/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace.c
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..023695352215bb5de3f91c1a6f5ea3b4f9373ff9
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace.c
>>> [...]
>>>> +	if (ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, pid, PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_ENTRY, &syscall_info_entry))
>>>> +		perr_and_exit("failed to get syscall info of entry\n");
>>>> +	result->orig_a0 = syscall_info_entry->entry.args[0];
>>>> +	if (ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, pid, PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_EXIT, &syscall_info_exit))
>>>> +		perr_and_exit("failed to get syscall info of exit\n");
>>>> +	result->a0 = syscall_info_exit->exit.rval;
>>>
>>> I'm sorry but this is not how PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO should be used.
>>>
>>> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO operation takes a pointer and a size,
>>> and in this example instead of size you pass constants 1 and 2, which
>>> essentially means that both syscall_info_entry->entry.args[0] and
>>> syscall_info_exit->exit.rval are not going to be assigned
>>> and would just contain some garbage from the stack.
>>>
>>> Also, PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO operation returns the number of bytes
>>> available to be written by the kernel, which is always nonzero on any
>>> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO-capable kernel.  In other words, this example
>>> will always end up with perr_and_exit() call.
>>>
>>> I wonder how this test was tested before the submission.
>>
>> Oops... It seems I forget sync the code to test board so it runs with the old code...
>> The code is completely not tested...
>> I'm so sorry for my mistake.
>>
>> I will correct it and test it carefully later...
> 
> It would be great to get this into 6.14. Let me know if you would like
> any help!

v5 has been sent.

Sorry for delay. My test environment was broken yesterday so I have to
spend time to repair it first...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250115-riscv-new-regset-v5-0-d0e6ec031a23@coelacanthus.name/T/

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> - Charlie
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