[Devel] [PATCH 2/4] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)

[Dmitry Safonov]

As the task isn't executing at the moment of {GET,SET}REGS,
return regset that corresponds to code selector, rather than
value of TIF_IA32 flag.
I.e. if we ptrace i386 elf binary that has just changed it's
code selector to __USER_CS, than GET_REGS will return
full x86_64 register set.

Note, that this will work only if application has changed it's CS.
If the application does 32-bit syscall with __USER_CS, ptrace
will still return 64-bit register set. Which might be still confusing
for tools that expect TS_COMPACT to be exposed [1, 2].

So this this change should make PTRACE_GETREGSET more reliable and
this will be another step to drop TIF_{IA32,X32} flags.

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/mailman/message/30471411/
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/320

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov at openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at virtuozzo.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov at virtuozzo.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index b7cc6a025b49..8093633150e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ void update_regset_xstate_info(unsigned int size, u64 xstate_mask)
 const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
-	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IA32))
+	if (!user_64bit_mode(task_pt_regs(task)))
 #endif
 #if defined CONFIG_X86_32 || defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
 		return &user_x86_32_view;
-- 
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