Ability to tell the difference between normal and syscall traps
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Sun May 9 21:44:05 UTC 2010
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:28:51PM +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
> Kostik Belousov yazm??:
> > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 08:33:03AM +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
> > > Kostik Belousov yazm??:
> > > > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:15:09PM +0300, Ali Polatel wrote:
> > > > > Does FreeBSD's ptrace have a way to tell the difference between normal
> > > > > traps and those caused by a system call?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Linux? this is possible by passing PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD option to the
> > > > > ptrace request PTRACE_SETOPTIONS which makes the kernel set bit 7 in the
> > > > > syscall number when delivering system call traps,
> > > > > (i.e., deliver (SIGTRAP | 0x80)).
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not sure if this is possible on FreeBSD. PT_LWPINFO request looks
> > > > > related but can't be sure.
> > > > >
> > > > > ?: http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace
> > > >
> > > > There is already procfs(5)-based interface to get a reason for stop.
> > > > Look at the ioctl PIOCSTATUS. Yes, you have to mount procfs.
> > > >
> > > > The interface can be lifted to ptrace(2), but I think using the capacity
> > > > of procfs is not wrong there.
> > >
> > > Hmm ok, I've been playing around with PIOCSTATUS but it doesn't seem to
> > > work, there's not much documentation about it either so I figured I'll
> > > just ask.
> > >
> > > The code is here: http://alip.github.com/code/piocstatus.c
> > >
> > > The traced child is stopped at the beginning of a system call. I await
> > > that the PIOCSTATUS request sets ps.why to S_SCE but it's always zero.
> > > Can you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? :)
> >
> > Apparently I missed the fact that S_PT_SCE and S_SCE are different
> > flags. It seems you have to use procfs stop events (PIOCBIS) and
> > procfs-based loop to get p_step set to 1.
>
> So I can't use ptrace() together with ioctl() based tracing.
> Fair enough...
>
> I'm trying to write the ioctl() based equivalent of what I've started
> but I can't figure out how to start tracing by forking a new child.
>
> Here's how I do it on Linux:
> fork()
> child: call kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP) and wait for the parent to resume.
> parent: wait for the child, set up tracing options and start tracing.
>
> I can directly use execve() so the child will stop too but I'm writing a
> library and for its unit tests I need to use the SIGSTOP method because
> I won't do any exec'ing.
>
> I tried to do the same with ioctl(), it works most of the time but it
> hangs every now and then at PIOCWAIT. I'm inclined to think there's a
> race condition but I couldn't figure out why.
>
> The code is here: http://alip.github.com/code/piocstatus-2.c
>
> Fwiw this is about a library called
> pinktrace(http://dev.exherbo.org/~alip/pinktrace) I'm trying to write.
> Its aim is to be a lightweight portable tracing library with multiple
> backends (like procfs and ptrace etc.) I think this could prove useful
> for many people who need to do tracing and doesn't want to bother with
> platform specific details.
I see. You could try this patch. It requires HEAD or recent RELENG_8
to be applicable. I added PL_EVENT_SCE/SCX to PT_LWPINFO for i386 and
amd64. Please note that I did not tested it, only booted the kernel to
make sure that it does not break too ugly.
diff --git a/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c b/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
index f3dba94..f97f875 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
@@ -911,6 +911,7 @@ syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
PROC_LOCK(p);
td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_USERWR;
+ td->td_dbgflags |= TDB_SCE;
PROC_UNLOCK(p);
}
error = fetch_syscall_args(td, &sa);
@@ -965,6 +966,11 @@ syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
#endif
}
retval:
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_SCE;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
cpu_set_syscall_retval(td, error);
/*
@@ -1007,12 +1013,21 @@ syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
ktrsysret(sa.code, error, td->td_retval[0]);
#endif
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags |= TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
/*
* This works because errno is findable through the
* register set. If we ever support an emulation where this
* is not the case, this code will need to be revisited.
*/
STOPEVENT(p, S_SCX, sa.code);
-
PTRACESTOP_SC(p, td, S_PT_SCX);
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
}
diff --git a/sys/amd64/ia32/ia32_syscall.c b/sys/amd64/ia32/ia32_syscall.c
index aa1ae6c..300d1f6 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/ia32/ia32_syscall.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/ia32/ia32_syscall.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ ia32_syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
PROC_LOCK(p);
td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_USERWR;
+ td->td_dbgflags |= TDB_SCE;
PROC_UNLOCK(p);
}
error = fetch_ia32_syscall_args(td, &sa);
@@ -218,6 +219,11 @@ ia32_syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
td->td_errno = error;
}
retval:
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_SCE;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
cpu_set_syscall_retval(td, error);
/*
@@ -259,14 +265,23 @@ ia32_syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
ktrsysret(sa.code, error, td->td_retval[0]);
#endif
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags |= TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
/*
* This works because errno is findable through the
* register set. If we ever support an emulation where this
* is not the case, this code will need to be revisited.
*/
STOPEVENT(p, S_SCX, sa.code);
-
PTRACESTOP_SC(p, td, S_PT_SCX);
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
}
diff --git a/sys/i386/i386/trap.c b/sys/i386/i386/trap.c
index a11daa6..2550d34 100644
--- a/sys/i386/i386/trap.c
+++ b/sys/i386/i386/trap.c
@@ -1170,13 +1170,22 @@ syscall(struct trapframe *frame)
ktrsysret(sa.code, error, td->td_retval[0]);
#endif
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags |= TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
/*
* This works because errno is findable through the
* register set. If we ever support an emulation where this
* is not the case, this code will need to be revisited.
*/
STOPEVENT(p, S_SCX, sa.code);
-
PTRACESTOP_SC(p, td, S_PT_SCX);
+ if (p->p_flag & P_TRACED) {
+ PROC_LOCK(p);
+ td->td_dbgflags &= ~TDB_SCX;
+ PROC_UNLOCK(p);
+ }
}
diff --git a/sys/kern/sys_process.c b/sys/kern/sys_process.c
index d8cc4f0..a6b88c3 100644
--- a/sys/kern/sys_process.c
+++ b/sys/kern/sys_process.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,10 @@ kern_ptrace(struct thread *td, int req, pid_t pid, void *addr, int data)
pl->pl_lwpid = td2->td_tid;
if (td2->td_dbgflags & TDB_XSIG)
pl->pl_event = PL_EVENT_SIGNAL;
+ else if (td2->td_dbgflags & TDB_SCE)
+ pl->pl_event = PL_EVENT_SCE;
+ else if (td2->td_dbgflags & TDB_SCX)
+ pl->pl_event = PL_EVENT_SCX;
else
pl->pl_event = 0;
pl->pl_flags = 0;
diff --git a/sys/sys/proc.h b/sys/sys/proc.h
index e32e494..9457ad1 100644
--- a/sys/sys/proc.h
+++ b/sys/sys/proc.h
@@ -364,6 +364,8 @@ do { \
#define TDB_SUSPEND 0x00000001 /* Thread is suspended by debugger */
#define TDB_XSIG 0x00000002 /* Thread is exchanging signal under trace */
#define TDB_USERWR 0x00000004 /* Debugger modified memory or registers */
+#define TDB_SCE 0x00000008 /* Thread performs syscall enter */
+#define TDB_SCX 0x00000010 /* Thread performs syscall exit */
/*
* "Private" flags kept in td_pflags:
diff --git a/sys/sys/ptrace.h b/sys/sys/ptrace.h
index b30447c..3265e63 100644
--- a/sys/sys/ptrace.h
+++ b/sys/sys/ptrace.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ struct ptrace_lwpinfo {
int pl_event; /* Event that stopped the LWP. */
#define PL_EVENT_NONE 0
#define PL_EVENT_SIGNAL 1
+#define PL_EVENT_SCE 2
+#define PL_EVENT_SCX 3
int pl_flags; /* LWP flags. */
#define PL_FLAG_SA 0x01 /* M:N thread */
#define PL_FLAG_BOUND 0x02 /* M:N bound thread */
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