um: PTRACE_SETREGSET failure with XSTATE on Kabylake CPU

[Thomas Meyer]

Hi,

I finally did figure out where in the host kernel the ptrace syscall
fails with -EFAULT.

In arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c:130:

114 int xstateregs_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
115                   unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
116                   const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
117 {
118         struct fpu *fpu = &target->thread.fpu;
119         struct xregs_state *xsave;
120         int ret;
121 
122         if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE))
123                 return -ENODEV;
124 
125         pr_info("in xstateregs_set");
126 
127         /*
128          * A whole standard-format XSAVE buffer is needed:
129          */
130         if ((pos != 0) || (count < fpu_user_xstate_size)) {
131                 pr_info("EFAULT from xstateregs_set");
132->               pr_info("pos = %i, count = %i, fpu_user_xstate_size= %i\n", pos, count, fpu_user_xstate_size);
133                 return -EFAULT;
134         }

Sadly I had to fallback to debugging by printk because kgdb/qemu
gdbstub, all didn't work for some unknown reason :-(

output is:
[   69.598349] EFAULT from xstateregs_set
[   69.598350] pos = 0, count = 832, fpu_user_xstate_size= 1088

calling code is in arch/x86/um/os-Linux/registers.c:

 49 int restore_fp_registers(int pid, unsigned long *fp_regs)
 50 {
 51         struct iovec iov;
 52 
 53         if (have_xstate_support) {
 54                 iov.iov_base = fp_regs;
 55                 iov.iov_len = sizeof(struct _xstate);
 56                 if (ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_X86_XSTATE, &iov) < 0)
 57  ->                     return -errno;
 58                 return 0;
 59         } else {
 60                 return restore_i387_registers(pid, fp_regs);
 61         }
 62 }

it looks like _xstate is too short for above operation, I wonder why
PTRACE_GETREGSET works without a warning of too short size.

with kind regards
thomas