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From:   Francis Laniel <flaniel@linux.microsoft.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] arm64: Do not forget syscall when starting a new thread.
Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:26:32 +0200
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Hi.

Le mardi 28 juin 2022, 15:58:35 CEST Will Deacon a =E9crit :
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:24:46PM +0100, Francis Laniel wrote:
> > This patch enables exeve*() to be traced with syscalls:sys_exit_execve
> > tracepoint.
> > Previous to it, by calling forget_syscall(), this tracepoint would not
> > print its information as syscall is -1.
> > So, this patch removes call to forget_syscall() and set regs->syscallno
> > to its previous value.
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Francis Laniel <flaniel@linux.microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >=20
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >=20
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> > b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h index 9e58749db21d..86eb0bfe3b38
> > 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> > @@ -272,8 +272,9 @@ void tls_preserve_current_state(void);
> >=20
> >  static inline void start_thread_common(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned
> >  long pc) {
> >=20
> > +	s32 previous_syscall =3D regs->syscallno;
> >=20
> >  	memset(regs, 0, sizeof(*regs));
> >=20
> > -	forget_syscall(regs);
> > +	regs->syscallno =3D previous_syscall;
>=20
> I'm still unsure about this. Even if we preserve the syscall number here,
> won't all the arguments be reported as 0?

I am not really sure what you meant about arguments, can you please precise=
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between command line arguments (ls -al) and syscall arguments (argp, envp,=
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etc.)?
Indeed, if my understanding is correct syscall arguments are showed by=20
sys_enter_* while sys_exit_* only reports the syscall return code.

Regarding the return code I think the value is correct as it is used in=20
syscall_trace_exit() but set in invoke_syscall() after the syscall finishes=
 [1,=20
2].
The comparison of arm64 and amd64 output also shows no difference:
# amd64
ls 435739 [002] 24689.292479:  syscalls:sys_exit_execve: 0x0
            7fc43732e100 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
# arm64
ls   266 [000]    34.708444:  syscalls:sys_exit_execve: 0x0
                    1140 [unknown] (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
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> I also looked quickly at the 32-bit arch/arm/ code and it looks like the
> same behaviour exists there (module CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC).

I can try to fix it for this architecture too.
Can you please point me the part of the code which shows the same behavior?
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> Will


Best regards.
=2D--
[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18/source/arch/arm64/kernel/
ptrace.c#L1868
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18/source/arch/arm64/kernel/
syscall.c#L57