[PATCH] arm64: hw_breakpoint: Save privilege of access control via ptrace

Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu at loongson.cn
Tue Jun 18 00:10:10 PDT 2024


Currently, decode_ctrl_reg() saves the privilege of access control
which is not used anymore, arch_build_bp_info() checks whether bp
virtual address is in kernel space to construct hw->ctrl.privilege,
the process seems not reasonable.

Add a member "bp_priv" in struct perf_event_attr to make a bridge
between ptrace and hardware breakpoint, it can save the privilege
of access control via ptrace for hardware breakpoint.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu at loongson.cn>
---

This patch is based on 6.10-rc4, cross compile tested only.
This is a try and preparation for later patch on LoongArch.

 arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 11 ++---------
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c        |  2 ++
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h   |  1 +
 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c     |  1 +
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 722ac45f9f7b..06e34bcdcf92 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -486,15 +486,8 @@ static int arch_build_bp_info(struct perf_event *bp,
 	/* Address */
 	hw->address = attr->bp_addr;
 
-	/*
-	 * Privilege
-	 * Note that we disallow combined EL0/EL1 breakpoints because
-	 * that would complicate the stepping code.
-	 */
-	if (arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace(hw))
-		hw->ctrl.privilege = AARCH64_BREAKPOINT_EL1;
-	else
-		hw->ctrl.privilege = AARCH64_BREAKPOINT_EL0;
+	/* Privilege */
+	hw->ctrl.privilege = attr->bp_priv;
 
 	/* Enabled? */
 	hw->ctrl.enabled = !attr->disabled;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0d022599eb61..3b37c4a2e0d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ static struct perf_event *ptrace_hbp_create(unsigned int note_type,
 	attr.bp_addr	= 0;
 	attr.bp_len	= HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4;
 	attr.bp_type	= type;
+	attr.bp_priv	= AARCH64_BREAKPOINT_EL0;
 	attr.disabled	= 1;
 
 	bp = register_user_hw_breakpoint(&attr, ptrace_hbptriggered, NULL, tsk);
@@ -352,6 +353,7 @@ static int ptrace_hbp_fill_attr_ctrl(unsigned int note_type,
 	attr->bp_len	= len;
 	attr->bp_type	= type;
 	attr->bp_addr	+= offset;
+	attr->bp_priv	= ctrl.privilege;
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 3a64499b0f5d..88dcaba421cc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 		__u32		wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup   */
 	};
 
+	__u8			bp_priv;
 	__u32			bp_type;
 	union {
 		__u64		bp_addr;
diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index 6c2cb4e4f48d..3ad16b226e4f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ static void hw_breakpoint_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr *to,
 	to->bp_addr = from->bp_addr;
 	to->bp_type = from->bp_type;
 	to->bp_len  = from->bp_len;
+	to->bp_priv = from->bp_priv;
 	to->disabled = from->disabled;
 }
 
-- 
2.42.0




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