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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-08-11 18:06:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2012-09-15 17:37:29 +0200 |
| commit | 95cf00fa5d5e2a200a2c044c84bde8389a237e02 (patch) | |
| tree | 8caa1e1283605496079fd4187fabac7321e9cd51 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 848e8f5f0ad3169560c516fff6471be65f76e69f (diff) | |
ptrace/x86: Partly fix set_task_blockstep()->update_debugctlmsr() logic
Afaics the usage of update_debugctlmsr() and TIF_BLOCKSTEP in
step.c was always very wrong.
1. update_debugctlmsr() was simply unneeded. The child sleeps
TASK_TRACED, __switch_to_xtra(next_p => child) should notice
TIF_BLOCKSTEP and set/clear DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF after resume if
needed.
2. It is wrong. The state of DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF bit in CPU register
should always match the state of current's TIF_BLOCKSTEP bit.
3. Even get_debugctlmsr() + update_debugctlmsr() itself does not
look right. Irq can change other bits in MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR
register or the caller can be preempted in between.
4. It is not safe to play with TIF_BLOCKSTEP if task != current.
DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF and TIF_BLOCKSTEP should always match each
other if the task is running. The tracee is stopped but it
can be SIGKILL'ed right before set/clear_tsk_thread_flag().
However, now that uprobes uses user_enable_single_step(current)
we can't simply remove update_debugctlmsr(). So this patch adds
the additional "task == current" check and disables irqs to avoid
the race with interrupts/preemption.
Unfortunately this patch doesn't solve the last problem, we need
another fix. Probably we should teach ptrace_stop() to set/clear
single/block stepping after resume.
And afaics there is yet another problem: perf can play with
MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR from nmi, this obviously means that even
__switch_to_xtra() has problems.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/step.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c index 7a514986ca0..f89cdc6ccd5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c @@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ static void set_task_blockstep(struct task_struct *task, bool on) { unsigned long debugctl; + /* + * Ensure irq/preemption can't change debugctl in between. + * Note also that both TIF_BLOCKSTEP and debugctl should + * be changed atomically wrt preemption. + * FIXME: this means that set/clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP is simply + * wrong if task != current, SIGKILL can wakeup the stopped + * tracee and set/clear can play with the running task, this + * can confuse the next __switch_to_xtra(). + */ + local_irq_disable(); debugctl = get_debugctlmsr(); if (on) { debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF; @@ -169,7 +179,9 @@ static void set_task_blockstep(struct task_struct *task, bool on) debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF; clear_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_BLOCKSTEP); } - update_debugctlmsr(debugctl); + if (task == current) + update_debugctlmsr(debugctl); + local_irq_enable(); } /* |