On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 02:59:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmmm. I thought watchpoints were "before the instruction" too, but > that's just because I haven't used them in ages, and I didn't remember > the details. I just looked it up. > > You're right - the memory watchpoints trigger after the instruction > has executed, so RF isn't an issue. So yes, the only issue is > instruction breakpoints, and those are the only ones we need to clear. > > And that makes it really easy. > > So yes, I agree. We only need to clear all kernel breakpoints.
But but but, we can access userspace with !IF, imagine someone doing: local_irq_disable(); copy_from_user_inatomic(); and as luck would have it, there's a breakpoint on the user memory we just touched. And we go and disable a user breakpoint. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
