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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2008-09-26 11:36:41 -0400
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2008-09-26 11:36:41 -0400
commitd7161a65341556bacb5e6654e133803f46f51063 (patch)
treeb2933dc2ce1435956c193c37fd53a3d5530fe9d7 /arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
parent18d6522b86d21a04c8ac1ea79747e2e434a956d9 (diff)
kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a system call. First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb, any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the exception. On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb core. The arch specific stub should always set the kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping. This allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
index f47f0eb886b8..00f7896c9a19 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -378,10 +378,8 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int e_vector, int signo, int err_code,
378 if (remcomInBuffer[0] == 's') { 378 if (remcomInBuffer[0] == 's') {
379 linux_regs->flags |= X86_EFLAGS_TF; 379 linux_regs->flags |= X86_EFLAGS_TF;
380 kgdb_single_step = 1; 380 kgdb_single_step = 1;
381 if (kgdb_contthread) { 381 atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step,
382 atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step, 382 raw_smp_processor_id());
383 raw_smp_processor_id());
384 }
385 } 383 }
386 384
387 get_debugreg(dr6, 6); 385 get_debugreg(dr6, 6);
@@ -466,9 +464,15 @@ static int __kgdb_notify(struct die_args *args, unsigned long cmd)
466 464
467 case DIE_DEBUG: 465 case DIE_DEBUG:
468 if (atomic_read(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step) == 466 if (atomic_read(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step) ==
469 raw_smp_processor_id() && 467 raw_smp_processor_id()) {
470 user_mode(regs)) 468 if (user_mode(regs))
471 return single_step_cont(regs, args); 469 return single_step_cont(regs, args);
470 break;
471 } else if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP))
472 /* This means a user thread is single stepping
473 * a system call which should be ignored
474 */
475 return NOTIFY_DONE;
472 /* fall through */ 476 /* fall through */
473 default: 477 default:
474 if (user_mode(regs)) 478 if (user_mode(regs))