Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] arm64: make a single hook to syscall_trace() for all syscall features

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Feb 26 2014 - 06:26:34 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:00:19AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 12:00 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:14:43AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> >> Currently syscall_trace() is called only for ptrace.
> >> With additional TIF_xx flags defined, it is now called in all the cases
> >> of audit, ftrace and seccomp in addition to ptrace.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 13 ++++++++++
> >> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 5 ++--
> >> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >> 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> [...]
>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> >> index 6a8928b..c70133e 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> >> @@ -1062,31 +1062,30 @@ asmlinkage int syscall_trace(int dir, struct pt_regs *regs)
> >> {
> >> unsigned long saved_reg;
> >>
> >> - if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
> >> - return regs->syscallno;
> >> -
> >> - if (is_compat_task()) {
> >> - /* AArch32 uses ip (r12) for scratch */
> >> - saved_reg = regs->regs[12];
> >> - regs->regs[12] = dir;
> >> - } else {
> >> - /*
> >> - * Save X7. X7 is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
> >> - * X7 = 0 -> entry, = 1 -> exit
> >> - */
> >> - saved_reg = regs->regs[7];
> >> - regs->regs[7] = dir;
> >> - }
> >> + if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)) {
> >> + if (is_compat_task()) {
> >> + /* AArch32 uses ip (r12) for scratch */
> >> + saved_reg = regs->regs[12];
> >> + regs->regs[12] = dir;
> >> + } else {
> >> + /*
> >> + * Save X7. X7 is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
> >> + * X7 = 0 -> entry, = 1 -> exit
> >> + */
> >> + saved_reg = regs->regs[7];
> >> + regs->regs[7] = dir;
> >> + }
> >>
> >> - if (dir)
> >> - tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
> >> - else if (tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> >> - regs->syscallno = ~0UL;
> >> + if (dir)
> >> + tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
> >> + else if (tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> >> + regs->syscallno = ~0UL;
> >>
> >> - if (is_compat_task())
> >> - regs->regs[12] = saved_reg;
> >> - else
> >> - regs->regs[7] = saved_reg;
> >> + if (is_compat_task())
> >> + regs->regs[12] = saved_reg;
> >> + else
> >> + regs->regs[7] = saved_reg;
> >> + }
> >
> > Aren't these changes (to ptrace.c) just a giant NOP?
>
> Umm, the purpose of this big "if" is to run the code only if TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE is set,
> and to make it easy to add additional hooks, audit and ftrace, around tracehook_report_*()
> later on.

The existing code already checks TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE. I'd rather you added
this new code when it's actually nedded (e.g. when adding audit on top).

Will
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