[PATCH v10 1/6] arm64: ptrace: add NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL regset

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Thu Nov 27 21:26:34 PST 2014


This regeset is intended to be used to get and set a system call number
while tracing.
There was some discussion about possible approaches to do so:

(1) modify x8 register with ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET) indirectly,
    and update regs->syscallno later on in syscall_trace_enter(), or
(2) define a dedicated regset for this purpose as on s390, or
(3) support ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) as on arch/arm

Thinking of the fact that user_pt_regs doesn't expose 'syscallno' to
tracer as well as that secure_computing() expects a changed syscall number,
especially case of -1, to be visible before this function returns in
syscall_trace_enter(), (1) doesn't work well.
We will take (2) since it looks much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h   |    1 +
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 8a4ae8e..f576781 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -551,6 +551,32 @@ static int tls_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int system_call_get(struct task_struct *target,
+			   const struct user_regset *regset,
+			   unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
+			   void *kbuf, void __user *ubuf)
+{
+	int syscallno = task_pt_regs(target)->syscallno;
+
+	return user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf,
+				   &syscallno, 0, -1);
+}
+
+static int system_call_set(struct task_struct *target,
+			   const struct user_regset *regset,
+			   unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
+			   const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
+{
+	int syscallno, ret;
+
+	ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &syscallno, 0, -1);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	task_pt_regs(target)->syscallno = syscallno;
+	return ret;
+}
+
 enum aarch64_regset {
 	REGSET_GPR,
 	REGSET_FPR,
@@ -559,6 +585,7 @@ enum aarch64_regset {
 	REGSET_HW_BREAK,
 	REGSET_HW_WATCH,
 #endif
+	REGSET_SYSTEM_CALL,
 };
 
 static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
@@ -608,6 +635,14 @@ static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
 		.set = hw_break_set,
 	},
 #endif
+	[REGSET_SYSTEM_CALL] = {
+		.core_note_type = NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL,
+		.n = 1,
+		.size = sizeof(int),
+		.align = sizeof(int),
+		.get = system_call_get,
+		.set = system_call_set,
+	},
 };
 
 static const struct user_regset_view user_aarch64_view = {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
index ea9bf25..71e1d0e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
 #define NT_ARM_TLS	0x401		/* ARM TLS register */
 #define NT_ARM_HW_BREAK	0x402		/* ARM hardware breakpoint registers */
 #define NT_ARM_HW_WATCH	0x403		/* ARM hardware watchpoint registers */
+#define NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL	0x404	/* ARM system call number */
 #define NT_METAG_CBUF	0x500		/* Metag catch buffer registers */
 #define NT_METAG_RPIPE	0x501		/* Metag read pipeline state */
 #define NT_METAG_TLS	0x502		/* Metag TLS pointer */
-- 
1.7.9.5




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