ptrace/x86: dont delay "disable" till second pass in ptrace_write_dr7()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:00:58 +0000 (16:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:33:26 +0000 (10:33 -0700)
ptrace_write_dr7() skips ptrace_modify_breakpoint(disabled => true)
unless second_pass, this buys nothing but complicates the code and means
that we always do the main loop twice even if "disabled" was never true.

The comment says:

Don't unregister the breakpoints right-away,
unless all register_user_hw_breakpoint()
requests have succeeded.

Firstly, we do not do register_user_hw_breakpoint(), it was removed by
commit 24f1e32c60c4 ("hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer
on top of perf events").

We are going to restore register_user_hw_breakpoint() (see the next
patch) but this doesn't matter: after commit 44234adcdce3
("hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them")
perf_event_disable() can not hurt, hw_breakpoint_del() does not free the
slot.

Remove the "second_pass" check from the main loop and simplify the code.
Since we have to check "bp != NULL" anyway, the patch also removes the
same check in ptrace_modify_breakpoint() and moves the comment into
ptrace_write_dr7().

With this patch the second pass is only needed to restore the saved
old_dr7.  This should never fail, so the patch adds WARN_ON() to catch
the potential problems as Frederic suggested.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

index 0649f166d7c65537e48b4f98a35fb8321438c31c..98b0a2ccc33c6ddfd1c5f5b5617d7e1eefcff08d 100644 (file)
@@ -609,14 +609,6 @@ ptrace_modify_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, int len, int type,
        int gen_len, gen_type;
        struct perf_event_attr attr;
 
-       /*
-        * We should have at least an inactive breakpoint at this
-        * slot. It means the user is writing dr7 without having
-        * written the address register first
-        */
-       if (!bp)
-               return -EINVAL;
-
        err = arch_bp_generic_fields(len, type, &gen_len, &gen_type);
        if (err)
                return err;
@@ -634,52 +626,47 @@ ptrace_modify_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, int len, int type,
  */
 static int ptrace_write_dr7(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long data)
 {
-       struct thread_struct *thread = &(tsk->thread);
+       struct thread_struct *thread = &tsk->thread;
        unsigned long old_dr7;
-       int i, orig_ret = 0, rc = 0;
-       int second_pass = 0;
+       bool second_pass = false;
+       int i, rc, ret = 0;
 
        data &= ~DR_CONTROL_RESERVED;
        old_dr7 = ptrace_get_dr7(thread->ptrace_bps);
+
 restore:
-       /*
-        * Loop through all the hardware breakpoints, making the
-        * appropriate changes to each.
-        */
+       rc = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; i++) {
                unsigned len, type;
                bool disabled = !decode_dr7(data, i, &len, &type);
                struct perf_event *bp = thread->ptrace_bps[i];
 
-               if (disabled) {
+               if (!bp) {
+                       if (disabled)
+                               continue;
                        /*
-                        * Don't unregister the breakpoints right-away, unless
-                        * all register_user_hw_breakpoint() requests have
-                        * succeeded. This prevents any window of opportunity
-                        * for debug register grabbing by other users.
+                        * We should have at least an inactive breakpoint at
+                        * this slot. It means the user is writing dr7 without
+                        * having written the address register first.
                         */
-                       if (!bp || !second_pass)
-                               continue;
+                       rc = -EINVAL;
+                       break;
                }
 
                rc = ptrace_modify_breakpoint(bp, len, type, tsk, disabled);
                if (rc)
                        break;
        }
-       /*
-        * Make a second pass to free the remaining unused breakpoints
-        * or to restore the original breakpoints if an error occurred.
-        */
-       if (!second_pass) {
-               second_pass = 1;
-               if (rc < 0) {
-                       orig_ret = rc;
-                       data = old_dr7;
-               }
+
+       /* Restore if the first pass failed, second_pass shouldn't fail. */
+       if (rc && !WARN_ON(second_pass)) {
+               ret = rc;
+               data = old_dr7;
+               second_pass = true;
                goto restore;
        }
 
-       return orig_ret < 0 ? orig_ret : rc;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /*