Mike Frysinger reported that his ptrace testcase showed strange
behaviour on parisc: It was not possible to avoid a syscall and the
return value of a syscall couldn't be changed.
To modify a syscall number, we were missing to save the new syscall
number to gr20 which is then picked up later in assembly again.
The effect that the return value couldn't be changed is a side-effect of
another bug in the assembly code. When a process is ptraced, userspace
expects each syscall to report entrance and exit of a syscall. If a
syscall number was given which doesn't exist, we jumped to the normal
syscall exit code instead of informing userspace that the (non-existant)
syscall exits. This unexpected behaviour confuses userspace and thus the
bug was misinterpreted as if we can't change the return value.
This patch fixes both problems and was tested on 64bit kernel with
32bit userspace.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9585c81..ce0b2b4 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -269,14 +269,19 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
long do_syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- long ret = 0;
-
/* Do the secure computing check first. */
secure_computing_strict(regs->gr[20]);
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE) &&
- tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
- ret = -1L;
+ tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs)) {
+ /*
+ * Tracing decided this syscall should not happen or the
+ * debugger stored an invalid system call number. Skip
+ * the system call and the system call restart handling.
+ */
+ regs->gr[20] = -1UL;
+ goto out;
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
if (!is_compat_task())
@@ -290,7 +295,8 @@ long do_syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
regs->gr[24] & 0xffffffff,
regs->gr[23] & 0xffffffff);
- return ret ? : regs->gr[20];
+out:
+ return regs->gr[20];
}
void do_syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
index 3fbd725..fbafa0d 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ tracesys_next:
#endif
comiclr,>>= __NR_Linux_syscalls, %r20, %r0
- b,n .Lsyscall_nosys
+ b,n .Ltracesys_nosys
LDREGX %r20(%r19), %r19
@@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ tracesys_next:
be 0(%sr7,%r19)
ldo R%tracesys_exit(%r2),%r2
+.Ltracesys_nosys:
+ ldo -ENOSYS(%r0),%r28 /* set errno */
+
/* Do *not* call this function on the gateway page, because it
makes a direct call to syscall_trace. */
--
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