Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Fix PTRACE_SYSEMU semantics

From: Keno Fischer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 18:22:53 -0400

Quoth the man page:
```
       If the tracee was restarted by PTRACE_SYSCALL or PTRACE_SYSEMU, the
       tracee enters syscall-enter-stop just prior to entering any system
       call (which will not be executed if the restart was using
       PTRACE_SYSEMU, regardless of any change made to registers at this
       point or how the tracee is restarted after this stop).
```

The parenthetical comment is currently true on x86 and powerpc,
but not currently true on arm64. arm64 re-checks the _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU
flag after the syscall entry ptrace stop. However, at this point,
it reflects which method was used to re-start the syscall
at the entry stop, rather than the method that was used to reach it.
Fix that by recording the original flag before performing the ptrace
stop, bringing the behavior in line with documentation and x86/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index b3d3005d9515..b67b4d14aa17 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1829,10 +1829,12 @@ static void tracehook_report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE) ||
-		test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_EMU)) {
+	u32 flags = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags) &
+		(_TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE);
+
+	if (flags) {
 		tracehook_report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER);
-		if (!in_syscall(regs) || test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_EMU))
+		if (!in_syscall(regs) || (flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU))
 			return -1;
 	}
 
-- 
2.25.1

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