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Commit ac2081cd authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon
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arm64: ptrace: Consistently use pseudo-singlestep exceptions



Although the arm64 single-step state machine can be fast-forwarded in
cases where we wish to generate a SIGTRAP without actually executing an
instruction, this has two major limitations outside of simply skipping
an instruction due to emulation.

1. Stepping out of a ptrace signal stop into a signal handler where
   SIGTRAP is blocked. Fast-forwarding the stepping state machine in
   this case will result in a forced SIGTRAP, with the handler reset to
   SIG_DFL.

2. The hardware implicitly fast-forwards the state machine when executing
   an SVC instruction for issuing a system call. This can interact badly
   with subsequent ptrace stops signalled during the execution of the
   system call (e.g. SYSCALL_EXIT or seccomp traps), as they may corrupt
   the stepping state by updating the PSTATE for the tracee.

Resolve both of these issues by injecting a pseudo-singlestep exception
on entry to a signal handler and also on return to userspace following a
system call.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLuis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Reported-by: default avatarKeno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent bdc5c744
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