ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach

The last remaining implementation of arch_ptrace_attach is ia64's
ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs which was added at the end of 2007 in
commit aa91a2e90044 ("[IA64] Synchronize RBS on PTRACE_ATTACH").

Reading the comments and examining the code ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs
has the sole purpose of saving registers to the stack when ptrace_attach
changes TASK_STOPPED to TASK_TRACED. In all other cases arch_ptrace_stop
takes care of the register saving.

In commit d79fdd6d96f4 ("ptrace: Clean transitions between TASK_STOPPED and TRACED")
modified ptrace_attach to wake up the thread and enter ptrace_stop normally even
when the thread starts out stopped.

This makes ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs completely unnecessary. So just
remove it.

I read through the code to verify that ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs is
unnecessary. What I found is that the code is quite dead.

Reading ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs it is easy to see that the it does
nothing unless __state == TASK_STOPPED.

Calling arch_ptrace_attach (aka ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs) after
ptrace_traceme it is easy to see that because we are talking about the
current process the value of __state is TASK_RUNNING. Which means
ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs does nothing.

The only other call of arch_ptrace_attach (aka
ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs) is after ptrace_attach.

If the task is running (and PTRACE_SEIZE is not specified), a SIGSTOP
is sent which results in do_signal_stop setting JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP on
the target task (as it is ptraced) and the target task stopping
in ptrace_stop with __state == TASK_TRACED.

If the task was already stopped then ptrace_attach sets
JOBCTL_TRAPPING and JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP, wakes it out of __TASK_STOPPED,
and waits until the JOBCTL_TRAPPING_BIT is clear. At which point
the task stops in ptrace_stop.

In both cases there are a couple of funning excpetions such as if the
traced task receiveds a SIGCONT, or is set a fatal signal.

However in all of those cases the tracee never stops in __state
TASK_STOPPED. Which is a long way of saying that ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs
is guaranteed never to do anything.

Cc: [e-mail]
Tested-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[e-mail]>

arch/ia64/include/asm/ptrace.h

···
   #define arch_ptrace_stop_needed() \
 	(!test_thread_flag(TIF_RESTORE_RSE))
 
-  extern void ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs (struct task_struct *);
-  #define arch_ptrace_attach(child) \
-	ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs(child)
-
   #define arch_has_single_step()  (1)
   #define arch_has_block_step()   (1)
 

arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c

···
 }
 
 /*
- * After PTRACE_ATTACH, a thread's register backing store area in user
- * space is assumed to contain correct data whenever the thread is
- * stopped.  arch_ptrace_stop takes care of this on tracing stops.
- * But if the child was already stopped for job control when we attach
- * to it, then it might not ever get into ptrace_stop by the time we
- * want to examine the user memory containing the RBS.
- */
-void
-ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs (struct task_struct *child)
-{
-	int stopped = 0;
-	struct unw_frame_info info;
-
-	/*
-	 * If the child is in TASK_STOPPED, we need to change that to
-	 * TASK_TRACED momentarily while we operate on it.  This ensures
-	 * that the child won't be woken up and return to user mode while
-	 * we are doing the sync.  (It can only be woken up for SIGKILL.)
-	 */
-
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	if (child->sighand) {
-		spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
-		if (READ_ONCE(child->__state) == TASK_STOPPED &&
-		    !test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_RESTORE_RSE)) {
-			set_notify_resume(child);
-
-			WRITE_ONCE(child->__state, TASK_TRACED);
-			stopped = 1;
-		}
-		spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
-	}
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-
-	if (!stopped)
-		return;
-
-	unw_init_from_blocked_task(&info, child);
-	do_sync_rbs(&info, ia64_sync_user_rbs);
-
-	/*
-	 * Now move the child back into TASK_STOPPED if it should be in a
-	 * job control stop, so that SIGCONT can be used to wake it up.
-	 */
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	if (child->sighand) {
-		spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
-		if (READ_ONCE(child->__state) == TASK_TRACED &&
-		    (child->signal->flags & SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED)) {
-			WRITE_ONCE(child->__state, TASK_STOPPED);
-		}
-		spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
-	}
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-}
-
-/*
  * Write f32-f127 back to task->thread.fph if it has been modified.
  */
 inline void

kernel/ptrace.c

···
 	return ret;
 }
 
-#ifndef arch_ptrace_attach
-#define arch_ptrace_attach(child)	do { } while (0)
-#endif
-
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, unsigned long, addr,
 		unsigned long, data)
 {
···
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_TRACEME) {
 		ret = ptrace_traceme();
-		if (!ret)
-			arch_ptrace_attach(current);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
···
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH || request == PTRACE_SEIZE) {
 		ret = ptrace_attach(child, request, addr, data);
-		/*
-		 * Some architectures need to do book-keeping after
-		 * a ptrace attach.
-		 */
-		if (!ret)
-			arch_ptrace_attach(child);
 		goto out_put_task_struct;
 	}
 
···
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH || request == PTRACE_SEIZE) {
 		ret = ptrace_attach(child, request, addr, data);
-		/*
-		 * Some architectures need to do book-keeping after
-		 * a ptrace attach.
-		 */
-		if (!ret)
-			arch_ptrace_attach(child);
 		goto out_put_task_struct;
 	}