If a debugger tries to zero a hardware debug control register, the
kernel will try to infer both the type and length of the breakpoint
in order to sanity-check against the requested regset type. This will
fail because the encoding will appear as a zero-length breakpoint.
This patch changes the control register setting so that disabled
breakpoints are treated as HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY and no further
sanity-checking is required.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
struct arch_hw_breakpoint_ctrl ctrl,
struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
struct arch_hw_breakpoint_ctrl ctrl,
struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
+ int err, len, type, disabled = !ctrl.enabled;
- err = arch_bp_generic_fields(ctrl, &len, &type);
- if (err)
- return err;
-
- switch (note_type) {
- case NT_ARM_HW_BREAK:
- if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_X) != type)
- return -EINVAL;
- break;
- case NT_ARM_HW_WATCH:
- if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_RW) != type)
+ if (disabled) {
+ len = 0;
+ type = HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY;
+ } else {
+ err = arch_bp_generic_fields(ctrl, &len, &type);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ switch (note_type) {
+ case NT_ARM_HW_BREAK:
+ if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_X) != type)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ case NT_ARM_HW_WATCH:
+ if ((type & HW_BREAKPOINT_RW) != type)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ default:
- break;
- default:
- return -EINVAL;
}
attr->bp_len = len;
attr->bp_type = type;
}
attr->bp_len = len;
attr->bp_type = type;
- attr->disabled = !ctrl.enabled;
+ attr->disabled = disabled;