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Revision 6342adcaa683c2b705c24ed201dc11b35854c88d authored by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi on 03 February 2021, 18:00:48 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 05 February 2021, 23:21:42 UTC
Commit 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall
code") introduced a bug on architectures using the generic syscall entry
code, in which processes stopped by PTRACE_SYSCALL do not trap on syscall
return after receiving a TIF_SINGLESTEP.

The reason is that the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP flag is overloaded to
cause the trap after a system call is executed, but since the above commit,
the syscall call handler only checks for the SYSCALL_WORK flags on the exit
work.

Split the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP such that it only means single-step
mode, and create a new type of SYSCALL_WORK to request a trap immediately
after a syscall in single-step mode.  In the current implementation, the
SYSCALL_WORK flag shadows the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag for simplicity.

Update x86 to flip this bit when a tracer enables single stepping.

Fixes: 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall code")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h7mtc9pr.fsf_-_@collabora.com

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Tip revision: 6342adcaa683c2b705c24ed201dc11b35854c88d authored by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi on 03 February 2021, 18:00:48 UTC
entry: Ensure trap after single-step on system call return
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