ARM: 7595/1: syscall: rework ordering in syscall_trace_exit
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:34:37 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:18:26 +0000 (00:18 +0000)
syscall_trace_exit is currently doing things back-to-front; invoking
the audit hook *after* signalling the debugger, which presents an
opportunity for the registers to be re-written by userspace in order to
bypass auditing constaints.

This patch fixes the ordering by moving the audit code first and the
tracehook code last. On the face of it, it looks like
current_thread_info()->syscall may be incorrect for the sys_exit
tracepoint, but that's actually not an issue because it will have been
set during syscall entry and cannot have changed since then.

Reported-by: Andrew Gabbasov <Andrew_Gabbasov@mentor.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c

index ee81dbc..d863bbf 100644 (file)
@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ __sys_trace:
 
 __sys_trace_return:
        str     r0, [sp, #S_R0 + S_OFF]!        @ save returned r0
-       mov     r1, scno
        mov     r0, sp
        bl      syscall_trace_exit
        b       ret_slow_syscall
index 518536d..03deeff 100644 (file)
@@ -957,17 +957,23 @@ asmlinkage int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno)
        return scno;
 }
 
-asmlinkage int syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno)
+asmlinkage void syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-       current_thread_info()->syscall = scno;
-
-       if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
-               scno = tracehook_report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT);
+       /*
+        * Audit the syscall before anything else, as a debugger may
+        * come in and change the current registers.
+        */
+       audit_syscall_exit(regs);
 
+       /*
+        * Note that we haven't updated the ->syscall field for the
+        * current thread. This isn't a problem because it will have
+        * been set on syscall entry and there hasn't been an opportunity
+        * for a PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL since then.
+        */
        if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
-               trace_sys_exit(regs, scno);
-
-       audit_syscall_exit(regs);
+               trace_sys_exit(regs, regs_return_value(regs));
 
-       return scno;
+       if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
+               tracehook_report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_EXIT);
 }