@@ -124,7 +124,21 @@ static void el0_svc_common(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno, int sc_nr,
user_exit();
if (has_syscall_work(flags)) {
- /* set default errno for user-issued syscall(-1) */
+ /*
+ * The de-facto standard way to skip a system call using ptrace
+ * is to set the system call to -1 (NO_SYSCALL) and set x0 to a
+ * suitable error code for consumption by userspace. However,
+ * this cannot be distinguished from a user-issued syscall(-1)
+ * and so we must set x0 to -ENOSYS here in case the tracer doesn't
+ * issue the skip and we fall into trace_exit with x0 preserved.
+ *
+ * This is slightly odd because it also means that if a tracer
+ * sets the system call number to -1 but does not initialise x0,
+ * then x0 will be preserved for all system calls apart from a
+ * user-issued syscall(-1). However, requesting a skip and not
+ * setting the return value is unlikely to do anything sensible
+ * anyway.
+ */
if (scno == NO_SYSCALL)
regs->regs[0] = -ENOSYS;
scno = syscall_trace_enter(regs);
If a task executes syscall(-1), we intercept this early and force x0 to be -ENOSYS so that we don't need to distinguish this scenario from one where the scno is -1 because a tracer wants to skip the system call using ptrace. With the return value set, the return path is the same as the skip case. Although there is a one-line comment noting this in el0_svc_common(), it misses out most of the detail. Expand the comment to describe a bit more about what is going on. Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com> Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)