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author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-04-18 18:11:53 +0200 |
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committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-05-01 04:32:10 +0200 |
commit | b2812d031dea86926e9c10f7714af33ac2f6b43d (patch) | |
tree | a48b18b49fa064e89b7b03e057e46e5a294a8053 /arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | |
parent | 87e9b2024659c614a876ce359a57e98a47b5ef37 (diff) | |
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hw-breakpoints: Change/Enforce some breakpoints policies
The current policies of breakpoints in x86 and SH are the following:
- task bound breakpoints can only break on userspace addresses
- cpu wide breakpoints can only break on kernel addresses
The former rule prevents ptrace breakpoints to be set to trigger on
kernel addresses, which is good. But as a side effect, we can't
breakpoint on kernel addresses for task bound breakpoints.
The latter rule simply makes no sense, there is no reason why we
can't set breakpoints on userspace while performing cpu bound
profiles.
We want the following new policies:
- task bound breakpoint can set userspace address breakpoints, with
no particular privilege required.
- task bound breakpoints can set kernelspace address breakpoints but
must be privileged to do that.
- cpu bound breakpoints can do what they want as they are privileged
already.
To implement these new policies, this patch checks if we are dealing
with a kernel address breakpoint, if so and if the exclude_kernel
parameter is set, we tell the user that the breakpoint is invalid,
which makes a good generic ptrace protection.
If we don't have exclude_kernel, ensure the user has the right
privileges as kernel breakpoints are quite sensitive (risk of
trap recursion attacks and global performance impacts).
[ Paul Mundt: keep addr space check for sh signal delivery and fix
double function declaration]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h index 2a1bd8f..c77a5a6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h @@ -44,9 +44,8 @@ struct arch_hw_breakpoint { struct perf_event; struct pmu; -extern int arch_check_va_in_userspace(unsigned long va, u8 hbp_len); -extern int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp, - struct task_struct *tsk); +extern int arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace(struct perf_event *bp); +extern int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp); extern int hw_breakpoint_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long val, void *data); |