Re: [RFC 3/3] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 14:14:23 EST


On 04/25/2016 09:09 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
On 04/25/2016 08:14 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
On 04/25/2016 07:53 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As the task isn't executing at the moment of {GET,SET}REGS,
return regset that corresponds to code selector.
So, for i386 elf binary that changed it's CS to __USER_CS
it will return full x86_64 register set.

That will change ABI: i.e, strace uses returned register size
to determine, in which mode the application is.
With the current ABI that way is buggy:
Oleg, any comment here?

int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
{
printf("Here we exit\n");
fflush(stdout);
asm volatile ("int $0x80" : : "a" (__NR_exit), "D" (1));
printf("After exit\n");

return 0;
}

This program will confuse strace:

[tst]$ strace ./confuse 2>&1 | tail
brk(0x1ca1000) = 0x1ca1000
write(1, "Here we exit\n", 13Here we exit
) = 13
exit(1) = ?
<... exit resumed> strace: _exit returned!
) = ?
write(1, "After exit\n", 11After exit
) = 11
exit_group(0) = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

So this ABI change should make PTRACE_GETREGSET more reliable and
this will be another step to drop TIF_{IA32,X32} flags.
Does strace start working again with this change? I suspect that
we'll eventually have to expose syscall_get_arch directly through
ptrace, but that's a project for another day.

Oh, crap, not yet - seems like, I failed with my test.
I'll resend this patch as will get it fixed, sorry.

I find out, what I have changed (and broke test):
> if (!user_64bit_mode(task_pt_regs(task)))
was
> if (task_thread_info(task)->status & TS_COMPAT)

That way the test runs now:
brk(NULL) = 0x1145000
brk(0x1167000) = 0x1167000
write(1, "Here we exit\n", 13Here we exit
) = 13
strace: [ Process PID=1608 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
umask(0) = 022

And that seems to be right as __NR_exit for amd64
is 60, which is the same as __NR_umask for i386.

strace: [ Process PID=1608 runs in 64 bit mode. ]
write(1, "After exit\n", 11After exit
) = 11
exit_group(0) = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

But I changed on signal patch rebase and now I'm
thinking: should it be
> if (task_thread_info(task)->status & TS_COMPAT || !user_64bit_mode(task_pt_regs(task)))
or what?
Should we count program that does compat syscall
as compatible even if it's in 64-bit mode?



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Regards,
Dmitry Safonov