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task_user_regset_view() has nonsensical semantics, but those semantics
appear to be relied on by existing users of PTRACE_GETREGSET and
PTRACE_SETREGSET. (See added comments below for details.)
It shouldn't be used for PTRACE_GETREGS or PTRACE_SETREGS, though. A
native 64-bit ptrace() call and an x32 ptrace() call using GETREGS
or SETREGS wants the 64-bit regset views, and a 32-bit ptrace() call
(native or compat) should use the 32-bit regset.
task_user_regset_view() almost does this except that it will
malfunction if a ptracer is itself ptraced and the outer ptracer
modifies CS on entry to a ptrace() syscall. Hopefully that has never
happened. (The compat ptrace() code already hardcoded the 32-bit
regset, so this change has no effect on that path.)
Improve the situation and deobfuscate the code by hardcoding the
64-bit view in the x32 ptrace() and selecting the view based on the
kernel config in the native ptrace().
I tried to figure out the history behind this API. I naïvely assumed
that PTRAGE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET were ancient APIs that
predated compat, but no. They were introduced by
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.