[RFC][PATCH 4/7] x86/debug: Move historical SYSENTER junk into exc_debug_kernel()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 06:54:08 EST



Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -820,18 +820,6 @@ static void handle_debug(struct pt_regs
goto out;
}

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE((dr6 & DR_STEP) && !user_mode(regs))) {
- /*
- * Historical junk that used to handle SYSENTER single-stepping.
- * This should be unreachable now. If we survive for a while
- * without anyone hitting this warning, we'll turn this into
- * an oops.
- */
- tsk->thread.debugreg6 &= ~DR_STEP;
- set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
- regs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF;
- }
-
si_code = get_si_code(tsk->thread.debugreg6);
if (tsk->thread.debugreg6 & (DR_STEP | DR_TRAP_BITS) || user_icebp)
send_sigtrap(regs, 0, si_code);
@@ -874,6 +862,18 @@ static __always_inline void exc_debug_ke
if (kprobe_debug_handler(regs))
goto out;

+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(dr6 & DR_STEP)) {
+ /*
+ * Historical junk that used to handle SYSENTER single-stepping.
+ * This should be unreachable now. If we survive for a while
+ * without anyone hitting this warning, we'll turn this into
+ * an oops.
+ */
+ dr6 &= ~DR_STEP;
+ set_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP);
+ regs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF;
+ }
+
handle_debug(regs, dr6, false);

out: