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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c index 22f9053b55b6..89fbee3991a2 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1811,8 +1811,20 @@ static void tracehook_report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long saved_reg; /* - * A scratch register (ip(r12) on AArch32, x7 on AArch64) is - * used to denote syscall entry/exit: + * 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 a general + * purpose register (ip/r12 for AArch32, x7 for AArch64) in the tracee + * and restoring its old value after the stop. 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. + * + * - Syscall stops behave differently to seccomp and pseudo-step traps + * (the latter do not nobble any registers). */ regno = (is_compat_task() ? 12 : 7); saved_reg = regs->regs[regno]; |