Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/ptrace: replace ptrace_report_syscall() with a tracehook call

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:17:25 +1100

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the patch.

"Dmitry V. Levin" <[email-masked]> writes:
> From: Elvira Khabirova <[email-masked]>
>
> Arch code should use tracehook_*() helpers as documented
> in include/linux/tracehook.h,
> ptrace_report_syscall() is not expected to be used outside that file.
>
> Co-authored-by: Dmitry V. Levin <[email-masked]>
> Fixes: 5521eb4bca2d ("powerpc/ptrace: Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU")
> Signed-off-by: Elvira Khabirova <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> v3: add a descriptive comment
> v2: explicitly ignore tracehook_report_syscall_entry() return code
>
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
> index afb819f4ca68..e84220d91bbd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -3266,7 +3266,12 @@ long do_syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	user_exit();
>  
>  	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_EMU)) {
> -		ptrace_report_syscall(regs);
> +		/*
> +		 * A nonzero return code from tracehook_report_syscall_entry()
> +		 * tells us to prevent the syscall execution, but we are not
> +		 * going to execute it anyway.
> +		 */
> +		(void) tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs);

Unfortunately the (void) cast doesn't work to suppress the must check
warning.

  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:3274:3: error: ignoring return value of 'tracehook_report_syscall_entry', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]

AFAIK we don't have a way to suppress that.

I guess we should rewrite it to only call
tracehook_report_syscall_entry() once, like x86 does.

I'll try and get a patch for that done & tested.

cheers