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Re: [rfa] Handle amd64-linux %orig_rax
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:30:35PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > Oh dear. So if we set registers on the syscall exit path, the
> > > kernel/ISA may just eat them. And we have no reliable way to know
> > > whether we're stopped on the syscall exit path.
> >
> > If you're single stepping over it you can remember it from
> > one instruction before (check if the opcode is SYSCALL or SYSENTER,
> > these are unique 2 byte opcodes each)
> >
> > If someone sets a breakpoint directly on the return point
> > and doesn't single step that wouldn't work, but then you shouldn't care about
> > the previous register state anyways.
>
> This case is usually SIGINT while inside a syscall, e.g. nanosleep.
> That gives us a prompt, and if the user changes $rcx there, we write
> into the register - and later it gets overridden. i.e. we're at the
> ptrace_stop call in kernel/signal.c:get_signal_to_deliver.
>
> I'm not quite sure how we're getting into the problem case though?
> I'd have guessed we were in sysret_signal and that uses iret.
Datoda, what kernel version were you using? I wonder if this fixed it
as a side effect:
Commit: 7bf36bbc5e0c09271f9efe22162f8cc3f8ebd3d2
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:50:00 +0200
[PATCH] x86_64: When user could have changed RIP always force IRET
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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