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Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:55:38 +0900
From:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	"dsaxena@...aro.org" <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	"arndb@...db.de" <arndb@...db.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] arm64: ptrace: add PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL

On 10/09/2014 12:30 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> wrote:
>> Hi Akashi,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:46:11AM +0100, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>>> To allow tracer to be able to change/skip a system call by re-writing
>>> a syscall number, there are several approaches:
>>>
>>> (1) modify x8 register with ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET), and handle this case
>>>      later on in syscall_trace_enter(), or
>>> (2) support ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) as on arm
>>>
>>> Thinking of the fact that user_pt_regs doesn't expose 'syscallno' to
>>> tracer as well as that secure_computing() expects a changed syscall number
>>> to be visible, especially case of -1, before this function returns in
>>> syscall_trace_enter(), we'd better take (2).
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h |    1 +
>>>   arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c           |   14 +++++++++++++-
>>>   2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> index 6913643..49c6174 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
>>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>>
>>>   #include <asm/hwcap.h>
>>>
>>> +#define PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL   23
>>>
>>>   /*
>>>    * PSR bits
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>>> index fe63ac5..2842f9f 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
>>> @@ -1082,7 +1082,19 @@ const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
>>>   long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
>>>                 unsigned long addr, unsigned long data)
>>>   {
>>> -     return ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
>>> +     int ret;
>>> +
>>> +     switch (request) {
>>> +             case PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL:
>>> +                     task_pt_regs(child)->syscallno = data;
>>> +                     ret = 0;
>>> +                     break;
>>> +             default:
>>> +                     ret = ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
>>> +                     break;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     return ret;
>>>   }
>>
>> I still don't understand why this needs to be in arch-specific code. Can't
>> we implement this in generic code and get architectures to implement
>> something like syscall_set_nr if they want the generic interface?
>
> Personally, I'd rather see this land as-is in the arm64 tree, and then
> later optimize PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL out of arm/ and arm64/, especially
> since only these architectures implement this at the moment.

+1 :)

-Takahiro AKASHI

> This is my plan for the asm-generic seccomp.h too -- I'd rather avoid
> touching other architectures in this series, as it's easier to review
> this way. Then we can optimize the code in a separate series, which
> will have those changes isolated, etc.
>
> -Kees
>
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