linux-kernel - [ 18/50] ARC: Ignore ptrace SETREGSET request for synthetic register "stop

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Message-Id: <20131016174400.590312903@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:45:04 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Anton Kolesov <akolesov@...opsys.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Subject: [ 18/50] ARC: Ignore ptrace SETREGSET request for synthetic register "stop_pc"

3.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

commit 5b24282846c064ee90d40fcb3a8f63b8e754fd28 upstream.

ARCompact TRAP_S insn used for breakpoints, commits before exception is
taken (updating architectural PC). So ptregs->ret contains next-PC and
not the breakpoint PC itself. This is different from other restartable
exceptions such as TLB Miss where ptregs->ret has exact faulting PC.
gdb needs to know exact-PC hence ARC ptrace GETREGSET provides for
@stop_pc which returns ptregs->ret vs. EFA depending on the
situation.

However, writing stop_pc (SETREGSET request), which updates ptregs->ret
doesn't makes sense stop_pc doesn't always correspond to that reg as
described above.

This was not an issue so far since user_regs->ret / user_regs->stop_pc
had same value and both writing to ptregs->ret was OK, needless, but NOT
broken, hence not observed.

With gdb "jump", they diverge, and user_regs->ret updating ptregs is
overwritten immediately with stop_pc, which this patch fixes.

Reported-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int genregs_set(struct task_struc
 	REG_IGNORE_ONE(pad2);
 	REG_IN_CHUNK(callee, efa, cregs);	/* callee_regs[r25..r13] */
 	REG_IGNORE_ONE(efa);			/* efa update invalid */
-	REG_IN_ONE(stop_pc, &ptregs->ret);	/* stop_pc: PC update */
+	REG_IGNORE_ONE(stop_pc);			/* PC updated via @ret */

 	return ret;
 }

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