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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711290958110.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:09:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86/mm 6/6] x86-64 ia32 ptrace get/putreg32 current
 task



Chuck seems to have caught a bug, although the wrong one:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> On 11/28/2007 07:42 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ptrace32.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ptrace32.c
> > ...
> > +		if (child == current)
> > +			load_gs_index(child->thread.gsindex);

This is correct.

But the ones that do the same thing for fs/es/ds are *not*. Those three 
registers are kernel mode registers (ds/es are the regular kernel data 
segment, fs is the per-cpu data segment), and restored on return to user 
space from the stack.

For similar reasons, this is wrong:

> > @@ -129,15 +137,23 @@ static int getreg32(struct task_struct *child, unsigned regno, u32 *val)
> >  	switch (regno) {
> >  	case offsetof(struct user32, regs.fs):
> >  		*val = child->thread.fsindex;
> > +		if (child == current)
> > +			asm("movl %%fs,%0" : "=r" (*val));
> >  		break;

That %fs is the kernel per-cpu thing, not the user %fs.

But this one is correct:

> >  	case offsetof(struct user32, regs.gs):
> >  		*val = child->thread.gsindex;
> > +		if (child == current)
> > +			asm("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r" (*val));
> 
> Won't this return the kernel's GS instead of the user's?

No, %gs is untouched by the kernel, so it contains user space version, and 
getting the value directly from %gs looks correct.

		Linus
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