[PATCH 1/3] arm64/ptrace: don't clobber task registers on syscall entry/exit traps

Andrei Vagin avagin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 14:40:10 EST 2021


ip/r12 for AArch32 and x7 for AArch64 is used to indicate whether or not
the stop has been signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit. This
means that:

- Any writes by the tracer to this register during the stop are
  ignored/discarded.

- The actual value of the register is not available during the stop,
  so the tracer cannot save it and restore it later.

Right now, these registers are clobbered in tracehook_report_syscall.
This change moves the logic to gpr_get and compat_gpr_get where
registers are copied into a user-space buffer.

This will allow to change these registers and to introduce a new
ptrace option to get the full set of registers.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h |   5 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c      | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
index e58bca832dff..0a9552b4f61e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ static inline unsigned long pstate_to_compat_psr(const unsigned long pstate)
 	return psr;
 }
 
+enum ptrace_syscall_dir {
+	PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER = 0,
+	PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT,
+};
+
 /*
  * This struct defines the way the registers are stored on the stack during an
  * exception. Note that sizeof(struct pt_regs) has to be a multiple of 16 (for
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 8ac487c84e37..39da03104528 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <asm/syscall.h>
 #include <asm/traps.h>
 #include <asm/system_misc.h>
+#include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/syscalls.h>
@@ -561,7 +562,31 @@ static int gpr_get(struct task_struct *target,
 		   struct membuf to)
 {
 	struct user_pt_regs *uregs = &task_pt_regs(target)->user_regs;
-	return membuf_write(&to, uregs, sizeof(*uregs));
+	unsigned long saved_reg;
+	int ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * We have some ABI weirdness here in the way that we handle syscall
+	 * exit stops because we indicate whether or not the stop has been
+	 * signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit by clobbering the general
+	 * purpose register x7.
+	 */
+	saved_reg = uregs->regs[7];
+
+	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
+		uregs->regs[7] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER;
+		break;
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
+		uregs->regs[7] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT;
+		break;
+	}
+
+	ret =  membuf_write(&to, uregs, sizeof(*uregs));
+
+	uregs->regs[7] = saved_reg;
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
@@ -575,6 +600,17 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * Historically, x7 can't be changed if the stop has been signalled
+	 * from syscall-enter of syscall-exit.
+	 */
+	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
+		newregs.regs[7] = task_pt_regs(target)->regs[7];
+		break;
+	}
+
 	if (!valid_user_regs(&newregs, target))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -1206,6 +1242,20 @@ static inline compat_ulong_t compat_get_user_reg(struct task_struct *task, int i
 	struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(task);
 
 	switch (idx) {
+	case 12:
+		/*
+		 * We have some ABI weirdness here in the way that we handle
+		 * syscall exit stops because we indicate whether or not the
+		 * stop has been signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit
+		 * by clobbering the general purpose register r12.
+		 */
+		switch (task->ptrace_message) {
+		case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
+			return PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER;
+		case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
+			return PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT;
+		}
+		return regs->regs[idx];
 	case 15:
 		return regs->pc;
 	case 16:
@@ -1282,6 +1332,17 @@ static int compat_gpr_set(struct task_struct *target,
 
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Historically, x12 can't be changed if the stop has been signalled
+	 * from syscall-enter of syscall-exit.
+	 */
+	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
+	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
+		newregs.regs[12] = task_pt_regs(target)->regs[12];
+		break;
+	}
+
 	if (valid_user_regs(&newregs.user_regs, target))
 		*task_pt_regs(target) = newregs;
 	else
@@ -1740,53 +1801,16 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	return ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
 }
 
-enum ptrace_syscall_dir {
-	PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER = 0,
-	PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT,
-};
-
 static void tracehook_report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs,
 				     enum ptrace_syscall_dir dir)
 {
-	int regno;
-	unsigned long saved_reg;
-
-	/*
-	 * We have some ABI weirdness here in the way that we handle syscall
-	 * exit stops because we indicate whether or not the stop has been
-	 * signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit by clobbering a general
-	 * purpose register (ip/r12 for AArch32, x7 for AArch64) in the tracee
-	 * and restoring its old value after the stop. This means that:
-	 *
-	 * - Any writes by the tracer to this register during the stop are
-	 *   ignored/discarded.
-	 *
-	 * - The actual value of the register is not available during the stop,
-	 *   so the tracer cannot save it and restore it later.
-	 *
-	 * - Syscall stops behave differently to seccomp and pseudo-step traps
-	 *   (the latter do not nobble any registers).
-	 */
-	regno = (is_compat_task() ? 12 : 7);
-	saved_reg = regs->regs[regno];
-	regs->regs[regno] = dir;
-
 	if (dir == PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER) {
 		if (tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
 			forget_syscall(regs);
-		regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
-	} else if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP)) {
-		tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
-		regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
 	} else {
-		regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
+		int singlestep = test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP);
 
-		/*
-		 * Signal a pseudo-step exception since we are stepping but
-		 * tracer modifications to the registers may have rewound the
-		 * state machine.
-		 */
-		tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 1);
+		tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, singlestep);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.29.2




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