On Thursday 13 April 2006 19:20, Jeff Dike wrote:
> Add PTRACE_SYSCALL_MASK, which allows system calls to be selectively
> traced. It takes a bitmask and a length. A system call is traced
> if its bit is one. Otherwise, it executes normally, and is
> invisible to the ptracing parent.
> This is not just useful for UML - strace -e could make good use of it as
> well.
> Index: linux-2.6.17-mm-vtime/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.17-mm-vtime.orig/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h 2006-04-13
> 13:48:02.000000000 -0400 +++
> linux-2.6.17-mm-vtime/include/asm-i386/ptrace.h 2006-04-13
> 13:49:32.000000000 -0400 @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct pt_regs {
>
> #define PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA 25
> #define PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA 26
> +#define PTRACE_SYSCALL_MASK 27
I think there could be a reason we skipped that for SYSEMU - that's to see.
Also, if this capability will be implemented in other archs, we should use
the 0x4200-0x4300 range for it.
> #define PTRACE_SYSEMU 31
> #define PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP 32
> @@ -450,6 +451,41 @@ int ptrace_traceme(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int set_syscall_mask(struct task_struct *child, char __user *mask,
> + unsigned long len)
> +{
> + int i, n = (NR_syscalls + 7) / 8;
> + char c;
> +
> + if(len > n){
> + for(i = NR_syscalls; i < len * 8; i++){
> + get_user(c, &mask[i / 8]);
This get_user() inside a loop is poor, it could slow down a valid call. It'd
be simpler to copy the mask from userspace in a local variable (with 400
syscalls that's 50 bytes, i.e. fully ok), and then perform the checks, if
wanted (I disagree with Heiko's message, this check is needed sometimes - see
my response to that).
And only after that set all at once child->syscall_mask. You copy twice that
little quantity of data but that's not at all time-critical, and you're
forced to do that to avoid partial updates; btw you've saved getting twice
the content from userspace (slow when address spaces are distinct, like for
4G/4G or SKAS implementation of copy_from_user).
Actually we would copy the whole struct in my API proposal (as I've described
in the other message, we need to pass another param IMHO, so we'd pack them
in a struct and pass its address).
> + if(!(c & (1 << (i % 8)))){
> + printk("Out of range syscall at %d\n", i);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + len = n;
> + }
> +
> + if(child->syscall_mask == NULL){
> + child->syscall_mask = kmalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if(child->syscall_mask == NULL)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + memset(child->syscall_mask, 0xff, n);
> + }
> +
> + /* XXX If this partially fails, we will have a partially updated
> + * mask.
> + */
> + if(copy_from_user(child->syscall_mask, mask, len))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
--
Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!".
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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