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    arm64: ptrace: Override SPSR.SS when single-stepping is enabled · 3a5a4366
    Will Deacon authored
    Luis reports that, when reverse debugging with GDB, single-step does not
    function as expected on arm64:
    
      | I've noticed, under very specific conditions, that a PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
      | request by GDB won't execute the underlying instruction. As a consequence,
      | the PC doesn't move, but we return a SIGTRAP just like we would for a
      | regular successful PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request.
    
    The underlying problem is that when the CPU register state is restored
    as part of a reverse step, the SPSR.SS bit is cleared and so the hardware
    single-step state can transition to the "active-pending" state, causing
    an unexpected step exception to be taken immediately if a step operation
    is attempted.
    
    In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have exposed SPSR.SS in the pstate
    accessible by the GPR regset, but it's a bit late for that now. Instead,
    simply prevent userspace from configuring the bit to a value which is
    inconsistent with the TIF_SINGLESTEP state for the task being traced.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eed6d69-d53d-9657-1fc9-c089be07f98c@linaro.orgReported-by: default avatarLuis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarLuis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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