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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2016-08-26 13:36:39 +0300
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2016-08-31 19:49:19 +0300
commit3a402a709500c5a3faca2111668c33d96555e35a (patch)
tree97954886176d3534ea17350450d6c15548abaac8 /arch/arm64/kernel
parent675b0563d6b26aa97bb8fe5bbde0ab9dc358433b (diff)
downloadlinux-3a402a709500c5a3faca2111668c33d96555e35a.tar.xz
arm64: debug: avoid resetting stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP
When TIF_SINGLESTEP is set for a task, the single-step state machine is enabled and we must take care not to reset it to the active-not-pending state if it is already in the active-pending state. Unfortunately, that's exactly what user_enable_single_step does, by unconditionally setting the SS bit in the SPSR for the current task. This causes failures in the GDB testsuite, where GDB ends up missing expected step traps if the instruction being stepped generates another trap, e.g. PTRACE_EVENT_FORK from an SVC instruction. This patch fixes the problem by preserving the current state of the stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP is set on the current thread. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Yao Qi <yao.qi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 91fff48d0f57..2751ff9c0934 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -435,8 +435,10 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kernel_active_single_step);
/* ptrace API */
void user_enable_single_step(struct task_struct *task)
{
- set_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(task), TIF_SINGLESTEP);
- set_regs_spsr_ss(task_pt_regs(task));
+ struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(task);
+
+ if (!test_and_set_ti_thread_flag(ti, TIF_SINGLESTEP))
+ set_regs_spsr_ss(task_pt_regs(task));
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(user_enable_single_step);