Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:41:49 +0200
From:   peterz@...radead.org
To:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@...cle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Robert O'Callahan" <rocallahan@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
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        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION 5.8] x86/entry: DR0 break-on-write not working

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:53:58AM -0700, Kyle Huey wrote:
> rr, a userspace record and replay debugger[0], has a test suite that
> attempts to exercise strange corners of the Linux API. One such
> test[1] began failing after 2bbc68f8373c0631ebf137f376fbea00e8086be7.
> I have not tried to understand what has changed in the kernel here but
> since the commit message says "No functional change" I assume
> something has gone wrong.
> 
> The test expects to get a SIGTRAP when watchvar is written to in the
> forked child, but instead the program just exits normally and we get a
> status value corresponding to that (exit code 77 = wait status
> 0x4d00). This test program should be usable outside of rr's test suite
> if you replace the test_assert/atomic_puts functions with
> assert/printf and replace the util.h include with appropriate standard
> includes.
> 
> This regression is present in 5.8.

$ uname -a
Linux ivb-ep 5.9.0-rc1-dirty #343 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 19 15:04:35 CEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ./ptrace_debug_regs
FAILED: errno=0 (Success)
ptrace_debug_regs: ptrace_debug_regs.c:104: main: Assertion `"FAILED: !" && check_cond(status == ((5 << 8) | 0x7f))' failed.
Aborted

I'm guess that is not the expected outcome, is that the same failure you
saw?

---
/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 8; c-basic-offset: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <sys/user.h>

/**
 * Print the printf-like arguments to stdout as atomic-ly as we can
 * manage.  Async-signal-safe.  Does not flush stdio buffers (doing so
 * isn't signal safe).
 */
__attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))) inline static int atomic_printf(
    const char* fmt, ...) {
  va_list args;
  char buf[1024];
  int len;

  va_start(args, fmt);
  len = vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, fmt, args);
  va_end(args);
  return write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, len);
}

/**
 * Write |str| on its own line to stdout as atomic-ly as we can
 * manage.  Async-signal-safe.  Does not flush stdio buffers (doing so
 * isn't signal safe).
 */
inline static int atomic_puts(const char* str) {
  return atomic_printf("%s\n", str);
}

inline static int check_cond(int cond) {
  if (!cond) {
    atomic_printf("FAILED: errno=%d (%s)\n", errno, strerror(errno));
  }
  return cond;
}

#define test_assert(cond) assert("FAILED: !" && check_cond(cond))

#define NEW_VALUE 0xabcdef

static void breakpoint(void) {}

static char watch_var;

int main(void) {
  pid_t child;
  int status;
  int pipe_fds[2];

  test_assert(0 == pipe(pipe_fds));

  if (0 == (child = fork())) {
    char ch;
    read(pipe_fds[0], &ch, 1);
    breakpoint();
    watch_var = 1;
    return 77;
  }

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, child, NULL, NULL));
  test_assert(child == waitpid(child, &status, 0));
  test_assert(status == ((SIGSTOP << 8) | 0x7f));
  test_assert(1 == write(pipe_fds[1], "x", 1));

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child,
                          (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]),
                          (void*)breakpoint));
  /* Enable DR0 break-on-exec */
  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child,
                          (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[7]),
                          (void*)0x1));

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, child, NULL, NULL));
  test_assert(child == waitpid(child, &status, 0));
  test_assert(status == ((SIGTRAP << 8) | 0x7f));
  test_assert(0x1 == ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, child,
                            (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[6])));

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child,
                          (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[0]),
                          &watch_var));
  /* Enable DR0 break-on-write */
  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, child,
                          (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[7]),
                          (void*)0x10001));

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, child, NULL, NULL));
  test_assert(child == waitpid(child, &status, 0));
  test_assert(status == ((SIGTRAP << 8) | 0x7f));
  test_assert(0x1 == ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, child,
                            (void*)offsetof(struct user, u_debugreg[6])));

  test_assert(0 == ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, child, NULL, NULL));

  test_assert(child == waitpid(child, &status, 0));
  test_assert(WIFEXITED(status));
  test_assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 77);

  atomic_puts("EXIT-SUCCESS");
  return 0;
}

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