[PATCH v6 2/6] arm64: ptrace: allow tracer to skip a system call

[AKASHI Takahiro]

If tracer specifies -1 as a syscall number, this traced system call should
be skipped with a value in x0 used as a return value.
This patch enables this semantics, but there is a restriction here:

   when syscall(-1) is issued by user, tracer cannot skip this system call
   and modify a return value at syscall entry.

In order to ease this flavor, we need to treat whatever value in x0 as
a return value, but this might result in a bogus value being returned,
especially when tracer doesn't do anything at this syscall.
So we always return ENOSYS instead, while we have another chance to change
a return value at syscall exit.

Please also note:
* syscall entry tracing and syscall exit tracing (ftrace tracepoint and
  audit) are always executed, if enabled, even when skipping a system call
  (that is, -1).
  In this way, we can avoid a potential bug where audit_syscall_entry()
  might be called without audit_syscall_exit() at the previous system call
  being called, that would cause OOPs in audit_syscall_entry().

* syscallno may also be set to -1 if a fatal signal (SIGKILL) is detected
  in tracehook_report_syscall_entry(), but since a value set to x0 (ENOSYS)
  is not used in this case, we may neglect the case.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h |    8 ++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S       |    4 ++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c      |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 501000f..a58cf62 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
 #define COMPAT_PT_TEXT_ADDR		0x10000
 #define COMPAT_PT_DATA_ADDR		0x10004
 #define COMPAT_PT_TEXT_END_ADDR		0x10008
+
+/*
+ * used to skip a system call when tracer changes its number to -1
+ * with ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL)
+ */
+#define RET_SKIP_SYSCALL	-1
+#define IS_SKIP_SYSCALL(no)	((int)(no & 0xffffffff) == -1)
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 /* sizeof(struct user) for AArch32 */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index f0b5e51..fdd6eae 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #include <asm/errno.h>
 #include <asm/esr.h>
+#include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 
@@ -671,6 +672,8 @@ ENDPROC(el0_svc)
 __sys_trace:
 	mov	x0, sp
 	bl	syscall_trace_enter
+	cmp	w0, #RET_SKIP_SYSCALL		// skip syscall?
+	b.eq	__sys_trace_return_skipped
 	adr	lr, __sys_trace_return		// return address
 	uxtw	scno, w0			// syscall number (possibly new)
 	mov	x1, sp				// pointer to regs
@@ -685,6 +688,7 @@ __sys_trace:
 
 __sys_trace_return:
 	str	x0, [sp]			// save returned x0
+__sys_trace_return_skipped:			// x0 already in regs[0]
 	mov	x0, sp
 	bl	syscall_trace_exit
 	b	ret_to_user
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 8876049..c54dbcc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1121,9 +1121,29 @@ static void tracehook_report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 asmlinkage int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
+	unsigned int saved_syscallno = regs->syscallno;
+
 	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
 		tracehook_report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER);
 
+	if (IS_SKIP_SYSCALL(regs->syscallno)) {
+		/*
+		 * RESTRICTION: we can't modify a return value of user
+		 * issued syscall(-1) here. In order to ease this flavor,
+		 * we need to treat whatever value in x0 as a return value,
+		 * but this might result in a bogus value being returned.
+		 */
+		/*
+		 * NOTE: syscallno may also be set to -1 if fatal signal is
+		 * detected in tracehook_report_syscall_entry(), but since
+		 * a value set to x0 here is not used in this case, we may
+		 * neglect the case.
+		 */
+		if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE) ||
+				(IS_SKIP_SYSCALL(saved_syscallno)))
+			regs->regs[0] = -ENOSYS;
+	}
+
 	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
 		trace_sys_enter(regs, regs->syscallno);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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