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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 72edac026a78..5bafdec34441 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ #include <asm/syscalls.h> #include <asm/ds.h> #include <asm/debugreg.h> -#include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h> asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(void); @@ -244,8 +243,6 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task) BUG(); } } - if (unlikely(dead_task->thread.debugreg7)) - flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(dead_task); } static inline void set_32bit_tls(struct task_struct *t, int tls, u32 addr) @@ -309,9 +306,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, savesegment(ds, p->thread.ds); err = -ENOMEM; - if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_DEBUG))) - if (copy_thread_hw_breakpoint(me, p, clone_flags)) - goto out; + memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) { p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -351,8 +346,6 @@ out: kfree(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr); p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0; } - if (err) - flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(p); return err; } @@ -508,23 +501,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) */ if (preload_fpu) __math_state_restore(); - /* - * There's a problem with moving the arch_install_thread_hw_breakpoint() - * call before current is updated. Suppose a kernel breakpoint is - * triggered in between the two, the hw-breakpoint handler will see that - * the 'current' task does not have TIF_DEBUG flag set and will think it - * is leftover from an old task (lazy switching) and will erase it. Then - * until the next context switch, no user-breakpoints will be installed. - * - * The real problem is that it's impossible to update both current and - * physical debug registers at the same instant, so there will always be - * a window in which they disagree and a breakpoint might get triggered. - * Since we use lazy switching, we are forced to assume that a - * disagreement means that current is correct and the exception is due - * to lazy debug register switching. - */ - if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_DEBUG))) - arch_install_thread_hw_breakpoint(next_p); return prev_p; } |