From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:03:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] arm64: ptrace: reload a syscall number after ptrace operations In-Reply-To: <53D23341.4040403@linaro.org> References: <1406020499-5537-1-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <1406020499-5537-2-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <53D08358.4020902@amacapital.net> <53D0A037.2060308@linaro.org> <53D23341.4040403@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20140725110342.GD5269@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:36:49AM +0100, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > On 07/25/2014 12:01 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >>> If so, then you risk (at least) introducing > >>> > >>> a nice user-triggerable OOPS if audit is enabled. > >> > >> > >> Can you please elaborate this? > >> Since I didn't find any definition of audit's behavior when syscall is > >> rewritten to -1, I thought it is reasonable to skip "exit tracing" of > >> "skipped" syscall. > >> (otherwise, "fake" seems to be more appropriate :) > > > > The audit entry hook will oops if you call it twice in a row without > > calling the exit hook in between. > > Thank you, I could reproduce this problem which hits BUG(in_syscall) in > audit_syscall_entry(). Really bad, and I fixed it in my next version and > now a "skipped" system call is also traced by audit. Can you reproduce this on arch/arm/ too? If so, we should also fix the code there. Will