Re: [LTP] [x86/entry] 2bbc68f837: ltp.ptrace08.fail

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> do_debug is a bit of a red herring here.  ptrace should not be able to
> put a breakpoint on a kernel address, period.  I would just pick a
> fixed address that's in the kernel text range or even just in the
> pre-KASLR text range and make sure it gets rejected.  Maybe try a few
> different addresses for good measure.

I've looked at the code and it seems like this would be a bit more
complicated since the breakpoint is set by an accident in a race and the
call still fails. Which is why the test triggers the breakpoint and
causes infinite loop in the kernel...

I guess that we could instead read back the address with
PTRACE_PEEKUSER, so something as:


break_addr = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, child_pid,
                    (void *)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]),
                    NULL);

if (break_addr == kernel_addr)
	tst_res(TFAIL, "ptrace() set break on a kernel address");

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
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