When the TIF_SINGLESTEP tracee dequeues a signal, handle_signal() clears TIF_FORCED_TF and X86_EFLAGS_TF but leaves TIF_SINGLESTEP set.
If the tracer does PTRACE_SINGLESTEP again, enable_single_step() sets X86_EFLAGS_TF but not TIF_FORCED_TF. This means that the subsequent PTRACE_CONT doesn't not clear X86_EFLAGS_TF, and the tracee gets the wrong SIGTRAP. Test-case (needs -O2 to avoid prologue insns in signal handler): #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <sys/user.h> #include <assert.h> #include <stddef.h> void handler(int n) { asm("nop"); } int child(void) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0); signal(SIGALRM, handler); kill(getpid(), SIGALRM); return 0x23; } void *getip(int pid) { return (void*)ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, pid, offsetof(struct user, regs.rip), 0); } int main(void) { int pid, status; pid = fork(); if (!pid) return child(); assert(wait(&status) == pid); assert(WIFSTOPPED(status) && WSTOPSIG(status) == SIGALRM); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0, SIGALRM) == 0); assert(wait(&status) == pid); assert(WIFSTOPPED(status) && WSTOPSIG(status) == SIGTRAP); assert((getip(pid) - (void*)handler) == 0); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0, SIGALRM) == 0); assert(wait(&status) == pid); assert(WIFSTOPPED(status) && WSTOPSIG(status) == SIGTRAP); assert((getip(pid) - (void*)handler) == 1); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0,0) == 0); assert(wait(&status) == pid); assert(WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0x23); return 0; } The last assert() fails because PTRACE_CONT wrongly triggers another single-step and X86_EFLAGS_TF can't be cleared by debugger until the tracee does sys_rt_sigreturn(). Change handle_signal() to do user_disable_single_step() if stepping, we do not need to preserve TIF_SINGLESTEP because we are going to do ptrace_notify(), and it is simply wrong to leak this bit. While at it, change the comment to explain why we also need to clear TF unconditionally after setup_rt_frame(). Note: in the longer term we should probably change setup_sigcontext() to use get_flags() and then just remove this user_disable_single_step(). And, the state of TIF_FORCED_TF can be wrong after restore_sigcontext() which can set/clear TF, this needs another fix. Reported-by: Evan Teran <ete...@alum.rit.edu> Reported-by: Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c index ed37a76..9d3a15b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c @@ -629,7 +629,8 @@ setup_rt_frame(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs) static void handle_signal(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs) { - bool failed; + bool stepping, failed; + /* Are we from a system call? */ if (syscall_get_nr(current, regs) >= 0) { /* If so, check system call restarting.. */ @@ -653,12 +654,13 @@ handle_signal(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs) } /* - * If TF is set due to a debugger (TIF_FORCED_TF), clear the TF - * flag so that register information in the sigcontext is correct. + * If TF is set due to a debugger (TIF_FORCED_TF), clear TF now + * so that register information in the sigcontext is correct and + * then notify the tracer before entering the signal handler. */ - if (unlikely(regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_TF) && - likely(test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_FORCED_TF))) - regs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF; + stepping = test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP); + if (stepping) + user_disable_single_step(current); failed = (setup_rt_frame(ksig, regs) < 0); if (!failed) { @@ -669,10 +671,8 @@ handle_signal(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs) * it might disable possible debug exception from the * signal handler. * - * Clear TF when entering the signal handler, but - * notify any tracer that was single-stepping it. - * The tracer may want to single-step inside the - * handler too. + * Clear TF for the case when it wasn't set by debugger to + * avoid the recursive send_sigtrap() in SIGTRAP handler. */ regs->flags &= ~(X86_EFLAGS_DF|X86_EFLAGS_RF|X86_EFLAGS_TF); /* @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ handle_signal(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs) if (used_math()) drop_init_fpu(current); } - signal_setup_done(failed, ksig, test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP)); + signal_setup_done(failed, ksig, stepping); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/