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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-09-03 15:24:17 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-09-15 17:37:30 +0200
commit9bd1190a11c9d2c59d35cb999b8d170ad52aab5f (patch)
tree2a7999451f98ca752d1ea2ddd49ef4c349e18e40 /Makefile
parent95cf00fa5d5e2a200a2c044c84bde8389a237e02 (diff)
uprobes/x86: Do not (ab)use TIF_SINGLESTEP/user_*_single_step() for single-stepping
user_enable/disable_single_step() was designed for ptrace, it assumes a single user and does unnecessary and wrong things for uprobes. For example: - arch_uprobe_enable_step() can't trust TIF_SINGLESTEP, an application itself can set X86_EFLAGS_TF which must be preserved after arch_uprobe_disable_step(). - we do not want to set TIF_SINGLESTEP/TIF_FORCED_TF in arch_uprobe_enable_step(), this only makes sense for ptrace. - otoh we leak TIF_SINGLESTEP if arch_uprobe_disable_step() doesn't do user_disable_single_step(), the application will be killed after the next syscall. - arch_uprobe_enable_step() does access_process_vm() we do not need/want. Change arch_uprobe_enable/disable_step() to set/clear X86_EFLAGS_TF directly, this is much simpler and more correct. However, we need to clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP/DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF before executing the probed insn, add set_task_blockstep(false). Note: with or without this patch, there is another (hopefully minor) problem. A probed "pushf" insn can see the wrong X86_EFLAGS_TF set by uprobes. Perhaps we should change _disable to update the stack, or teach arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() to emulate this insn. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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