linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] ptrace: add generic SET

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:00:47 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"roland@...k.frob.com" <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"dsaxena@...aro.org" <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	"keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"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: [RFC] ptrace: add generic SET_SYSCALL request

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:46:01AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On 11/07/2014 11:04 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > To me the fact that PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL can be undefined and syscall_set_nr()
> > is very much arch-dependant (but most probably trivial) means that this  code
> > should live in arch_ptrace().
> 
> Thinking of Oleg's comment above, it doesn't make sense neither to define generic
> NT_SYSTEM_CALL (user_regset) in uapi/linux/elf.h and implement it in ptrace_regset()
> in kernel/ptrace.c with arch-defined syscall_(g)set_nr().
> 
> Since we should have the same interface on arm and arm64, we'd better implement
> ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) locally on arm64 for now (as I originally submitted).

I think the regset approach is cleaner. We already do something similar for
TLS. That would be implemented under arch/arm64/ with it's own NT type.

Will
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