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Message-ID: <20210326182839.GE5126@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:28:40 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
Keno Fischer <keno@...iacomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: expose orig_x0 in the user_pt_regs structure
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:50:50PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> index 758ae984ff97..3c118c5b0893 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct user_pt_regs {
> __u64 sp;
> __u64 pc;
> __u64 pstate;
> + __u64 orig_x0;
> };
That's a UAPI change, likely to go wrong. For example, a
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, REGSET_GPR, data) would write past the end
of an old struct user_pt_regs in the debugger.
--
Catalin
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