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powerpc/watchpoint/ptrace: Fix SETHWDEBUG when CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT=N
authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 04:29:40 +0000 (09:59 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:51:13 +0000 (11:51 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 9b6b7c680cc20971444d9f836e49fc98848bcd0a ]

When kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT=N, user can
still create watchpoint using PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, with limited
functionalities. But, such watchpoints are never firing because of
the missing privilege settings. Fix that.

It's safe to set HW_BRK_TYPE_PRIV_ALL because we don't really leak
any kernel address in signal info. Setting HW_BRK_TYPE_PRIV_ALL will
also help to find scenarios when kernel accesses user memory.

Reported-by: Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902042945.129369-4-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-noadv.c

index 8bd8d8de5c40b90e7eab7569ff00cd94bf212423..a570782e954be5610bf60abedb7e2b84b6d10771 100644 (file)
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ long ppc_set_hwdebug(struct task_struct *child, struct ppc_hw_breakpoint *bp_inf
                return -EIO;
 
        brk.address = ALIGN_DOWN(bp_info->addr, HW_BREAKPOINT_SIZE);
-       brk.type = HW_BRK_TYPE_TRANSLATE;
+       brk.type = HW_BRK_TYPE_TRANSLATE | HW_BRK_TYPE_PRIV_ALL;
        brk.len = DABR_MAX_LEN;
        brk.hw_len = DABR_MAX_LEN;
        if (bp_info->trigger_type & PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ)