Re: [RFC PATCH v2] ptrace: add PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:19:10PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 06:55:29AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:56 PM Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:56:57PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > > Please cc linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for future versions.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:58 AM Elvira Khabirova wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > struct ptrace_syscall_info {
> > > > > >         __u8 op; /* 0 for entry, 1 for exit */
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you add proper defines, like:
> > > > >
> > > > > #define PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTRY 0
> > > > > #define PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT 1
> > > > > #define PTRACE_SYSCALL_SECCOMP 2
> > > > >
> > > > > and make seccomp work from the start?  I'd rather we don't merge an
> > > > > implementation that doesn't work for seccomp and then have to rework
> > > > > it later.
> > > >
> > > > What's the difference between PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP and syscall-entry-stop
> > > > with regards to PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request?  At least they have the
> > > > same entry_info to return.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure there's any material difference.
> >
> > In that case we don't really need PTRACE_SYSCALL_SECCOMP: op field
> > describes the structure inside the union to use, not the ptrace stop.
> 
> Unless we think the structures might diverge in the future.

If these structures ever diverge, then a seccomp structure will be added
to the union, and a portable userspace code will likely look this way:

#include <linux/ptrace.h>
...
struct ptrace_syscall_info info;
long rc = ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, pid, (void *) sizeof(info), &info);
...
switch (info.op) {
	case PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_ENTRY:
		/* handle info.entry */
	case PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_EXIT:
		/* handle info.exit */
#ifdef PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_SECCOMP
	case PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_SECCOMP:
		/* handle info.seccomp */
#endif
	default:
		/* handle unknown info.op */
}

In other words, it would be better if PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_* selector
constants were introduced along with corresponding structures in the
union.


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