From cdc27c27843248ae7eb0df5fc261dd004eaa5670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:09:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: ptrace: avoid using HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY for disabled events Commit 8f34a1da35ae ("arm64: ptrace: use HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY type for disabled breakpoints") fixed an issue with GDB trying to zero breakpoint control registers. The problem there is that the arch hw_breakpoint code will attempt to create a (disabled), execute breakpoint of length 0. This will fail validation and report unexpected failure to GDB. To avoid this, we treated disabled breakpoints as HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY, but that seems to have broken with recent kernels, causing watchpoints to be treated as TYPE_INST in the core code and returning ENOSPC for any further breakpoints. This patch fixes the problem by prioritising the `enable' field of the breakpoint: if it is cleared, we simply update the perf_event_attr to indicate that the thing is disabled and don't bother changing either the type or the length. This reinforces the behaviour that the breakpoint control register is essentially read-only apart from the enable bit when disabling a breakpoint. Cc: Reported-by: Aaron Liu Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c index 6777a2192b83..6a8928bba03c 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -214,31 +214,29 @@ static int ptrace_hbp_fill_attr_ctrl(unsigned int note_type, { int err, len, type, disabled = !ctrl.enabled; - if (disabled) { - len = 0; - type = HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY; - } else { - err = arch_bp_generic_fields(ctrl, &len, &type); - if (err) - return err; + attr->disabled = disabled; + if (disabled) + return 0; - switch (note_type) { - case NT_ARM_HW_BREAK: - if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_X) != type) - return -EINVAL; - break; - case NT_ARM_HW_WATCH: - if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_RW) != type) - return -EINVAL; - break; - default: + err = arch_bp_generic_fields(ctrl, &len, &type); + if (err) + return err; + + switch (note_type) { + case NT_ARM_HW_BREAK: + if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_X) != type) return -EINVAL; - } + break; + case NT_ARM_HW_WATCH: + if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_RW) != type) + return -EINVAL; + break; + default: + return -EINVAL; } attr->bp_len = len; attr->bp_type = type; - attr->disabled = disabled; return 0; }