kernel_optimize_test/arch
Tejun Heo b9cd18de4d ptrace,x86: force IRET path after a ptrace_stop()
The 'sysret' fastpath does not correctly restore even all regular
registers, much less any segment registers or reflags values.  That is
very much part of why it's faster than 'iret'.

Normally that isn't a problem, because the normal ptrace() interface
catches the process using the signal handler infrastructure, which
always returns with an iret.

However, some paths can get caught using ptrace_event() instead of the
signal path, and for those we need to make sure that we aren't going to
return to user space using 'sysret'.  Otherwise the modifications that
may have been done to the register set by the tracer wouldn't
necessarily take effect.

Fix it by forcing IRET path by setting TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME from
arch_ptrace_stop_needed() which is invoked from ptrace_stop().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-03 17:27:23 -07:00
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alpha Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
arc ARC: [SMP] Enable icache coherency 2014-06-26 11:59:01 +05:30
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2014-06-29 13:40:08 -07:00
arm64 arm64: mm: remove broken &= operator from pmd_mknotpresent 2014-06-18 16:34:30 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
blackfin blackfin updates for Linux 3.16 2014-06-12 20:08:47 -07:00
c6x DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
cris cris: update comments for generic idle conversion 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
frv sys_sgetmask/sys_ssetmask: add CONFIG_SGETMASK_SYSCALL 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
hexagon
ia64 ia64: arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h needs personality.h 2014-06-23 16:47:44 -07:00
m32r
m68k Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
metag Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 3.16-rc1 2014-06-05 16:15:33 -07:00
mips A bunch of one-liners (except the s390 one). 2014-07-01 09:27:34 -07:00
mn10300 sys_sgetmask/sys_ssetmask: add CONFIG_SGETMASK_SYSCALL 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
openrisc DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
parisc Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
powerpc powerpc: Don't skip ePAPR spin-table CPUs 2014-06-25 13:10:49 +10:00
s390 A bunch of one-liners (except the s390 one). 2014-07-01 09:27:34 -07:00
score
sh Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
sparc nmi: provide the option to issue an NMI back trace to every cpu but current 2014-06-23 16:47:44 -07:00
tile Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
um Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2014-06-12 21:23:38 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: Remove ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ config option 2014-06-20 08:22:41 +08:00
x86 ptrace,x86: force IRET path after a ptrace_stop() 2014-07-03 17:27:23 -07:00
xtensa Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
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