ptrace,x86: force IRET path after a ptrace_stop()

The 'sysret' fastpath does not correctly restore even all regular
registers, much less any segment registers or reflags values.  That is
very much part of why it's faster than 'iret'.

Normally that isn't a problem, because the normal ptrace() interface
catches the process using the signal handler infrastructure, which
always returns with an iret.

However, some paths can get caught using ptrace_event() instead of the
signal path, and for those we need to make sure that we aren't going to
return to user space using 'sysret'.  Otherwise the modifications that
may have been done to the register set by the tracer wouldn't
necessarily take effect.

Fix it by forcing IRET path by setting TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME from
arch_ptrace_stop_needed() which is invoked from ptrace_stop().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 14fd6fd75a1..6205f0c434d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -231,6 +231,22 @@ static inline unsigned long regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 #define ARCH_HAS_USER_SINGLE_STEP_INFO
 
+/*
+ * When hitting ptrace_stop(), we cannot return using SYSRET because
+ * that does not restore the full CPU state, only a minimal set.  The
+ * ptracer can change arbitrary register values, which is usually okay
+ * because the usual ptrace stops run off the signal delivery path which
+ * forces IRET; however, ptrace_event() stops happen in arbitrary places
+ * in the kernel and don't force IRET path.
+ *
+ * So force IRET path after a ptrace stop.
+ */
+#define arch_ptrace_stop_needed(code, info)				\
+({									\
+	set_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);				\
+	false;								\
+})
+
 struct user_desc;
 extern int do_get_thread_area(struct task_struct *p, int idx,
 			      struct user_desc __user *info);