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Message-ID: <970d9689-4188-4c40-92e6-bdf1e589e8a2@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:09:26 +0100
From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>
To: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>, catalin.marinas@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/11] arm64/ptrace: Split report_syscall()

On 17/11/2025 14:30, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> The generic syscall entry code has the form:
>
> | syscall_trace_enter()
> | {
> |	ptrace_report_syscall_entry()
> | }
> |
> | syscall_exit_work()
> | {
> |	ptrace_report_syscall_exit()
> | }
>
> In preparation for moving arm64 over to the generic entry code, split
> report_syscall() to two separate enter and exit functions to align
> the structure of the arm64 code with syscall_trace_enter() and
> syscall_exit_work() from the generic entry code.
>
> No functional changes.
>
> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 4b001121c72d..5534c175ceb7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@ enum ptrace_syscall_dir {
>  	PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT,
>  };

This is now unused so it should be removed.

>  
> -static void report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, enum ptrace_syscall_dir dir)
> +static void report_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)

Nit: better to call it "report_syscall_entry" to match its final name.

>  {
>  	int regno;
>  	unsigned long saved_reg;
> @@ -2340,13 +2340,24 @@ static void report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, enum ptrace_syscall_dir dir)
>  	 */
>  	regno = (is_compat_task() ? 12 : 7);
>  	saved_reg = regs->regs[regno];
> -	regs->regs[regno] = dir;
> +	regs->regs[regno] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER;
>  
> -	if (dir == PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER) {
> -		if (ptrace_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> -			forget_syscall(regs);
> -		regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
> -	} else if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP)) {
> +	if (ptrace_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> +		forget_syscall(regs);
> +	regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
> +}
> +
> +static void report_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	int regno;
> +	unsigned long saved_reg;
> +
> +	/* See comment for report_syscall_enter() above */
> +	regno = (is_compat_task() ? 12 : 7);

Probably best not to duplicate such magic numbers, moving this line to a
helper would be good.

- Kevin

> +	saved_reg = regs->regs[regno];
> +	regs->regs[regno] = PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT;
> +
> +	if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP)) {
>  		ptrace_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
>  		regs->regs[regno] = saved_reg;
>  	} else {
> @@ -2366,7 +2377,7 @@ int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	unsigned long flags = read_thread_flags();
>  
>  	if (flags & (_TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)) {
> -		report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER);
> +		report_syscall_enter(regs);
>  		if (flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU)
>  			return NO_SYSCALL;
>  	}
> @@ -2394,7 +2405,7 @@ void syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		trace_sys_exit(regs, syscall_get_return_value(current, regs));
>  
>  	if (flags & (_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | _TIF_SINGLESTEP))
> -		report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT);
> +		report_syscall_exit(regs);
>  
>  	rseq_syscall(regs);
>  }