[tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Mar 10 2016 - 06:06:07 EST


Commit-ID: 392a62549fbb80da48811d04391615a25c39d091
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/392a62549fbb80da48811d04391615a25c39d091
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:00:34 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:48:14 +0100

x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work

Now that SYSENTER with TF set puts X86_EFLAGS_TF directly into
regs->flags, we don't need a TIF_SINGLESTEP fixup in the syscall
entry code. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d15f24da52dafc9d2f0b8d76f55544f4779c517.1457578375.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/common.c | 10 ----------
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/common.c b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
index 1a000f5..209ba33 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
@@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ long syscall_trace_enter_phase2(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 arch,
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY))
BUG_ON(regs != task_pt_regs(current));

- /*
- * If we stepped into a sysenter/syscall insn, it trapped in
- * kernel mode; do_debug() cleared TF and set TIF_SINGLESTEP.
- * If user-mode had set TF itself, then it's still clear from
- * do_debug() and we need to set it again to restore the user
- * state. If we entered on the slow path, TF was already set.
- */
- if (work & _TIF_SINGLESTEP)
- regs->flags |= X86_EFLAGS_TF;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SECCOMP
/*
* Call seccomp_phase2 before running the other hooks so that
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index c0778fc..f2e2302 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ struct thread_info {
/* work to do in syscall_trace_enter() */
#define _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY \
(_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT | \
- _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SINGLESTEP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT | \
+ _TIF_SECCOMP | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT | \
_TIF_NOHZ)

/* work to do on any return to user space */