Re: [PATCH] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact watchpoint addresses

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:18 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:12:26AM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > This is commit fdfeff0f9e3d ("arm64: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact
> > watchpoint addresses") but ported to arm32, which has the same
> > problem.
> >
> > This problem was found by Android CTS tests, notably the
> > "watchpoint_imprecise" test [1].  I tested locally against a copycat
> > (simplified) version of the test though.
> >
> > [1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/tests/sys_ptrace_test.cpp
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> >  arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> Sorry for taking so long to look at this. After wrapping my head around the
> logic again

Yeah.  It was a little weird and (unfortunately) arbitrarily different
in some places compared to the arm64 code.


> I think it looks fine, so please put it into the patch system
> with my Ack:
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!  Submitted as:

https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8944/1


> One interesting difference between the implementation here and the arm64
> code is that I think if you have multiple watchpoints, all of which fire
> with a distance != 0, then arm32 will actually report them all whereas
> you'd only get one on arm64.

Are you sure about that?  The "/* No exact match found. */" code is
outside the for loop so it should only be able to trigger for exactly
one breakpoint, no?

-Doug