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<title>arm64: Use test_tsk_thread_flag() for checking TIF_SINGLESTEP</title>
<updated>2020-07-31T14:44:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-13T12:12:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5afc78551bf5d53279036e0bf63314e35631d79f ]

Rather than open-code test_tsk_thread_flag() at each callsite, simply
replace the couple of offenders with calls to test_tsk_thread_flag()
directly.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5afc78551bf5d53279036e0bf63314e35631d79f ]

Rather than open-code test_tsk_thread_flag() at each callsite, simply
replace the couple of offenders with calls to test_tsk_thread_flag()
directly.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ptrace: Override SPSR.SS when single-stepping is enabled</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:10:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-13T12:06:26+00:00</published>
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commit 3a5a4366cecc25daa300b9a9174f7fdd352b9068 upstream.

Luis reports that, when reverse debugging with GDB, single-step does not
function as expected on arm64:

  | I've noticed, under very specific conditions, that a PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
  | request by GDB won't execute the underlying instruction. As a consequence,
  | the PC doesn't move, but we return a SIGTRAP just like we would for a
  | regular successful PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request.

The underlying problem is that when the CPU register state is restored
as part of a reverse step, the SPSR.SS bit is cleared and so the hardware
single-step state can transition to the "active-pending" state, causing
an unexpected step exception to be taken immediately if a step operation
is attempted.

In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have exposed SPSR.SS in the pstate
accessible by the GPR regset, but it's a bit late for that now. Instead,
simply prevent userspace from configuring the bit to a value which is
inconsistent with the TIF_SINGLESTEP state for the task being traced.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Keno Fischer &lt;keno@juliacomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eed6d69-d53d-9657-1fc9-c089be07f98c@linaro.org
Reported-by: Luis Machado &lt;luis.machado@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Machado &lt;luis.machado@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3a5a4366cecc25daa300b9a9174f7fdd352b9068 upstream.

Luis reports that, when reverse debugging with GDB, single-step does not
function as expected on arm64:

  | I've noticed, under very specific conditions, that a PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
  | request by GDB won't execute the underlying instruction. As a consequence,
  | the PC doesn't move, but we return a SIGTRAP just like we would for a
  | regular successful PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request.

The underlying problem is that when the CPU register state is restored
as part of a reverse step, the SPSR.SS bit is cleared and so the hardware
single-step state can transition to the "active-pending" state, causing
an unexpected step exception to be taken immediately if a step operation
is attempted.

In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have exposed SPSR.SS in the pstate
accessible by the GPR regset, but it's a bit late for that now. Instead,
simply prevent userspace from configuring the bit to a value which is
inconsistent with the TIF_SINGLESTEP state for the task being traced.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Keno Fischer &lt;keno@juliacomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eed6d69-d53d-9657-1fc9-c089be07f98c@linaro.org
Reported-by: Luis Machado &lt;luis.machado@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Machado &lt;luis.machado@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: Clear OSDLR_EL1 on CPU boot</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T16:48:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean-Philippe Brucker</name>
<email>jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-08T17:17:18+00:00</published>
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commit 6fda41bf12615ee7c3ddac88155099b1a8cf8d00 upstream.

Some firmwares may reboot CPUs with OS Double Lock set. Make sure that
it is unlocked, in order to use debug exceptions.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6fda41bf12615ee7c3ddac88155099b1a8cf8d00 upstream.

Some firmwares may reboot CPUs with OS Double Lock set. Make sure that
it is unlocked, in order to use debug exceptions.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: simplify sysreg manipulation</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T10:43:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-08T12:55:38+00:00</published>
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A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these across arm64 to make code shorter and
clearer. For sequences with a trailing ISB, the existing isb() macro is
also used so that asm blocks can be removed entirely.

A few uses of inline assembly for msr/mrs are left as-is. Those
manipulating sp_el0 for the current thread_info value have special
clobber requiremends.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these across arm64 to make code shorter and
clearer. For sequences with a trailing ISB, the existing isb() macro is
also used so that asm blocks can be removed entirely.

A few uses of inline assembly for msr/mrs are left as-is. Those
manipulating sp_el0 for the current thread_info value have special
clobber requiremends.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: report TRAP_TRACE instead of TRAP_HWBRPT for singlestep</title>
<updated>2016-09-02T15:55:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T12:35:02+00:00</published>
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Single-step traps to userspace (e.g. via ptrace) are expected to use
the TRAP_TRACE for the si_code field of the siginfo, as opposed to
TRAP_HWBRPT that we report currently.

Fix the reported value, which has no effect on existing and legacy
builds of GDB.

Reported-by: Yao Qi &lt;yao.qi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Single-step traps to userspace (e.g. via ptrace) are expected to use
the TRAP_TRACE for the si_code field of the siginfo, as opposed to
TRAP_HWBRPT that we report currently.

Fix the reported value, which has no effect on existing and legacy
builds of GDB.

Reported-by: Yao Qi &lt;yao.qi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: convert OS lock CPU hotplug notifier to new infrastructure</title>
<updated>2016-09-01T12:45:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-16T10:29:17+00:00</published>
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The arm64 debug monitor initialisation code uses a CPU hotplug notifier
to clear the OS lock when CPUs come online.

This patch converts the code to the new hotplug mechanism.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The arm64 debug monitor initialisation code uses a CPU hotplug notifier
to clear the OS lock when CPUs come online.

This patch converts the code to the new hotplug mechanism.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: debug: avoid resetting stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP</title>
<updated>2016-08-31T16:49:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-26T10:36:39+00:00</published>
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When TIF_SINGLESTEP is set for a task, the single-step state machine is
enabled and we must take care not to reset it to the active-not-pending
state if it is already in the active-pending state.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what user_enable_single_step does, by
unconditionally setting the SS bit in the SPSR for the current task.
This causes failures in the GDB testsuite, where GDB ends up missing
expected step traps if the instruction being stepped generates another
trap, e.g. PTRACE_EVENT_FORK from an SVC instruction.

This patch fixes the problem by preserving the current state of the
stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP is set on the current thread.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Yao Qi &lt;yao.qi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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When TIF_SINGLESTEP is set for a task, the single-step state machine is
enabled and we must take care not to reset it to the active-not-pending
state if it is already in the active-pending state.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what user_enable_single_step does, by
unconditionally setting the SS bit in the SPSR for the current task.
This causes failures in the GDB testsuite, where GDB ends up missing
expected step traps if the instruction being stepped generates another
trap, e.g. PTRACE_EVENT_FORK from an SVC instruction.

This patch fixes the problem by preserving the current state of the
stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP is set on the current thread.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Yao Qi &lt;yao.qi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next/kprobes' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T17:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-21T17:20:41+00:00</published>
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* kprobes:
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  arm64: Blacklist non-kprobe-able symbol
  arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
  arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
  arm64: Add more test functions to insn.c
  arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature
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* kprobes:
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  arm64: Blacklist non-kprobe-able symbol
  arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
  arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
  arm64: Add more test functions to insn.c
  arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature
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<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: remove redundant spsr manipulation</title>
<updated>2016-07-19T15:58:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-19T14:07:38+00:00</published>
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There is no need to explicitly clear the SS bit immediately before
setting it unconditionally.

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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There is no need to explicitly clear the SS bit immediately before
setting it unconditionally.

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: unmask PSTATE.D earlier</title>
<updated>2016-07-19T15:56:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-19T14:07:37+00:00</published>
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Clearing PSTATE.D is one of the requirements for generating a debug
exception. The arm64 booting protocol requires that PSTATE.D is set,
since many of the debug registers (for example, the hw_breakpoint
registers) are UNKNOWN out of reset and could potentially generate
spurious, fatal debug exceptions in early boot code if PSTATE.D was
clear. Once the debug registers have been safely initialised, PSTATE.D
is cleared, however this is currently broken for two reasons:

(1) The boot CPU clears PSTATE.D in a postcore_initcall and secondary
    CPUs clear PSTATE.D in secondary_start_kernel. Since the initcall
    runs after SMP (and the scheduler) have been initialised, there is
    no guarantee that it is actually running on the boot CPU. In this
    case, the boot CPU is left with PSTATE.D set and is not capable of
    generating debug exceptions.

(2) In a preemptible kernel, we may explicitly schedule on the IRQ
    return path to EL1. If an IRQ occurs with PSTATE.D set in the idle
    thread, then we may schedule the kthread_init thread, run the
    postcore_initcall to clear PSTATE.D and then context switch back
    to the idle thread before returning from the IRQ. The exception
    return path will then restore PSTATE.D from the stack, and set it
    again.

This patch fixes the problem by moving the clearing of PSTATE.D earlier
to proc.S. This has the desirable effect of clearing it in one place for
all CPUs, long before we have to worry about the scheduler or any
exception handling. We ensure that the previous reset of MDSCR_EL1 has
completed before unmasking the exception, so that any spurious
exceptions resulting from UNKNOWN debug registers are not generated.

Without this patch applied, the kprobes selftests have been seen to fail
under KVM, where we end up attempting to step the OOL instruction buffer
with PSTATE.D set and therefore fail to complete the step.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Clearing PSTATE.D is one of the requirements for generating a debug
exception. The arm64 booting protocol requires that PSTATE.D is set,
since many of the debug registers (for example, the hw_breakpoint
registers) are UNKNOWN out of reset and could potentially generate
spurious, fatal debug exceptions in early boot code if PSTATE.D was
clear. Once the debug registers have been safely initialised, PSTATE.D
is cleared, however this is currently broken for two reasons:

(1) The boot CPU clears PSTATE.D in a postcore_initcall and secondary
    CPUs clear PSTATE.D in secondary_start_kernel. Since the initcall
    runs after SMP (and the scheduler) have been initialised, there is
    no guarantee that it is actually running on the boot CPU. In this
    case, the boot CPU is left with PSTATE.D set and is not capable of
    generating debug exceptions.

(2) In a preemptible kernel, we may explicitly schedule on the IRQ
    return path to EL1. If an IRQ occurs with PSTATE.D set in the idle
    thread, then we may schedule the kthread_init thread, run the
    postcore_initcall to clear PSTATE.D and then context switch back
    to the idle thread before returning from the IRQ. The exception
    return path will then restore PSTATE.D from the stack, and set it
    again.

This patch fixes the problem by moving the clearing of PSTATE.D earlier
to proc.S. This has the desirable effect of clearing it in one place for
all CPUs, long before we have to worry about the scheduler or any
exception handling. We ensure that the previous reset of MDSCR_EL1 has
completed before unmasking the exception, so that any spurious
exceptions resulting from UNKNOWN debug registers are not generated.

Without this patch applied, the kprobes selftests have been seen to fail
under KVM, where we end up attempting to step the OOL instruction buffer
with PSTATE.D set and therefore fail to complete the step.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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