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author | Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> | 2008-09-26 10:36:41 -0500 |
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committer | Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> | 2008-09-26 10:36:41 -0500 |
commit | d7161a65341556bacb5e6654e133803f46f51063 (patch) | |
tree | b2933dc2ce1435956c193c37fd53a3d5530fe9d7 /kernel/kgdb.c | |
parent | 18d6522b86d21a04c8ac1ea79747e2e434a956d9 (diff) | |
download | lwn-d7161a65341556bacb5e6654e133803f46f51063.tar.gz lwn-d7161a65341556bacb5e6654e133803f46f51063.zip |
kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.
First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.
On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core. The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping. This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kgdb.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/kgdb.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c index 949806ab67de..25d955dbb989 100644 --- a/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ acquirelock: * Get the passive CPU lock which will hold all the non-primary * CPU in a spin state while the debugger is active */ - if (!kgdb_single_step || !kgdb_contthread) { + if (!kgdb_single_step) { for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) atomic_set(&passive_cpu_wait[i], 1); } @@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ acquirelock: #ifdef CONFIG_SMP /* Signal the other CPUs to enter kgdb_wait() */ - if ((!kgdb_single_step || !kgdb_contthread) && kgdb_do_roundup) + if ((!kgdb_single_step) && kgdb_do_roundup) kgdb_roundup_cpus(flags); #endif @@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ acquirelock: kgdb_post_primary_code(ks->linux_regs, ks->ex_vector, ks->err_code); kgdb_deactivate_sw_breakpoints(); kgdb_single_step = 0; - kgdb_contthread = NULL; + kgdb_contthread = current; exception_level = 0; /* Talk to debugger with gdbserial protocol */ @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ acquirelock: kgdb_info[ks->cpu].task = NULL; atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[ks->cpu], 0); - if (!kgdb_single_step || !kgdb_contthread) { + if (!kgdb_single_step) { for (i = NR_CPUS-1; i >= 0; i--) atomic_set(&passive_cpu_wait[i], 0); /* |