linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/6] arm64: ptrace: allow tracer to skip a system call

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Message-ID: <54058421.5070506@linaro.org>
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:47:29 +0900
From:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	"arndb@...db.de" <arndb@...db.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/6] arm64: ptrace: allow tracer to skip a system call

On 09/01/2014 08:47 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:55:46PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> 1)
>> setting x0 to -ENOSYS is necessary because, otherwise, user-issued syscall(-1) will
>> return a bogus value when audit tracing is on.
>>
>> Please note that, on arm,
>>                   not traced      traced
>>                   ------          ------
>> syscall(-1)      aborted         OOPs(BUG_ON)
>> syscall(-3000)   aborted         aborted
>> syscall(1000)    ENOSYS          ENOSYS
>
> Two points here:
>
> 1. You've found a case which causes a BUG_ON().  Where is the bug report
>     for this, so the problem can be investigated and resolved?

I think that I mentioned it could also happen on arm somewhere in a talk with Will,
but don't remember exactly when.

> 2. What do you mean by "aborted" ?

I mean that the process will receive SIGILL and get aborted.
A system call number, like -1 and -3000, won't be trapped by *switch* statement
in asm_syscall() and end up with being signaled.

> Please, if you find a problem with 32-bit ARM, report it.  Don't hide it,
> because hiding it can be a security issue or in the case of BUG_ON(), it
> could be a denial of service issue.
>
> As you're part of Linaro, I would have thought you'd be more responsible
> in this regard - after all, Linaro is supposed to be about improving the
> ARM kernel...  Maybe I got that wrong, and Linaro is actually about
> ensuring that the ARM kernel is stuffed full of broken features?

I thought my first priority was on arm64 (and then arm), but now that you and Will
seem to want to see the fix first on arm, okey, I will start with arm issue.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

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