Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64/ptrace: don't clobber task registers on syscall entry/exit traps

[Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 02:06:35PM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> ip/r12 for AArch32 and x7 for AArch64 is used to indicate whether or not
> the stop has been signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit. This
> means that:
> 
> - Any writes by the tracer to this register during the stop are
>   ignored/discarded.
> 
> - The actual value of the register is not available during the stop,
>   so the tracer cannot save it and restore it later.
> 
> Right now, these registers are clobbered in tracehook_report_syscall.
> This change moves this logic to gpr_get and compat_gpr_get where
> registers are copied into a user-space buffer.
> 
> This will allow to change these registers and to introduce a new
> NT_ARM_PRSTATUS command to get the full set of registers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h |   5 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c      | 104 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> index e58bca832dff..0a9552b4f61e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
> @@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ static inline unsigned long pstate_to_compat_psr(const unsigned long pstate)
>  	return psr;
>  }
>  
> +enum ptrace_syscall_dir {
> +	PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER = 0,
> +	PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT,
> +};
> +
>  /*
>   * This struct defines the way the registers are stored on the stack during an
>   * exception. Note that sizeof(struct pt_regs) has to be a multiple of 16 (for
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 8ac487c84e37..1863f080cb07 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  #include <asm/syscall.h>
>  #include <asm/traps.h>
>  #include <asm/system_misc.h>
> +#include <asm/ptrace.h>
>  
>  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>  #include <trace/events/syscalls.h>
> @@ -561,7 +562,33 @@ static int gpr_get(struct task_struct *target,
>  		   struct membuf to)
>  {
>  	struct user_pt_regs *uregs = &task_pt_regs(target)->user_regs;
> -	return membuf_write(&to, uregs, sizeof(*uregs));
> +	unsigned long saved_reg;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We have some ABI weirdness here in the way that we handle syscall
> +	 * exit stops because we indicate whether or not the stop has been
> +	 * signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit by clobbering the general
> +	 * purpose register x7.
> +	 */
> +	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
> +	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
> +		saved_reg = uregs->regs[7];
> +		uregs->regs[7] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER;
> +		break;
> +	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
> +		saved_reg = uregs->regs[7];
> +		uregs->regs[7] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT;
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret =  membuf_write(&to, uregs, sizeof(*uregs));
> +
> +	if (target->ptrace_message == PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY ||
> +	    target->ptrace_message == PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT)
> +		uregs->regs[7] = saved_reg;

This might be a reasonable cleanup even if the extra regset isn't
introduced: it makes it clear that we're not changing the user registers
here, just the tracer's view of them.

I'm assuming it doesn't break tracing anywhere else.  I can't think of
anything it would break just now, but I haven't spent much time looking
into it.


Can you not just unconditionally back up and restore regs[7] here?  e.g.

	saved_reg = uregs->regs[7];

	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
		uregs->regs[7] = target->ptrace_message;
	}

	ret = membuf_write(...);

	uregs->regs[7] = saved_reg;


> +
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
> @@ -1221,10 +1248,40 @@ static int compat_gpr_get(struct task_struct *target,
>  			  const struct user_regset *regset,
>  			  struct membuf to)
>  {
> +	compat_ulong_t r12;
> +	bool overwrite_r12;
>  	int i = 0;
>  
> -	while (to.left)
> -		membuf_store(&to, compat_get_user_reg(target, i++));
> +	/*
> +	 * We have some ABI weirdness here in the way that we handle syscall
> +	 * exit stops because we indicate whether or not the stop has been
> +	 * signalled from syscall entry or syscall exit by clobbering the
> +	 * general purpose register r12.
> +	 */
> +	switch (target->ptrace_message) {
> +	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_ENTRY:
> +		r12 = PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER;
> +		overwrite_r12 = true;
> +		break;
> +	case PTRACE_EVENTMSG_SYSCALL_EXIT:
> +		r12 = PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT;
> +		overwrite_r12 = true;
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		overwrite_r12 = false;
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	while (to.left) {
> +		compat_ulong_t val;
> +
> +		if (!overwrite_r12 || i != 12)
> +			val = compat_get_user_reg(target, i++);
> +		else
> +			val = r12;
> +		membuf_store(&to, val);
> +	}
> +

Can this be condensed too, say by introducing a wrapper for
compat_get_user_reg() that does the fudging on r12?

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Cheers
---Dave