Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:53:06 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, i386@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PSL_RF inclusion in PSL_USERCHANGE for i386 Message-ID: <20070904035306.GB53667@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20070903105130.L48985@delplex.bde.org> References: <20070902173953.GA52566@freebsd.org> <20070903105130.L48985@delplex.bde.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:18:37AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: > > >in i386/i386/machdep.c the set_regs() function sets i386 registers (called > >by ptrace for example). it checks what eflags are being changed and > >compares > >that with a mask of allowed flags to be changed. the mask is defined in > >psl.h > >like this: > > > >#define PSL_USERCHANGE (PSL_C | PSL_PF | PSL_AF | PSL_Z | PSL_N | PSL_T \ > > | PSL_D | PSL_V | PSL_NT | PSL_AC | PSL_ID) > > > >PSL_RF (Flag to ensure single-step only happens once per instruction.). > >Can someone > >tell me why this is omitted? I think its because of having in-kernel > >debugger. > > I think it is just because user mode cannot set this flag directly, > except probably in vm86 mode (vm86 support code already has special > cases for it). (Old) docs say that it can be set by popfl and iret, > but popfl doesn't set it for me now and user mode cannot execute iret (?). It can. It would result in exception when the normal privilege checks triggers, but would execute as expected otherwise. For instance, #include <sys/syscall.h> .text .globl main .type main, @function main: pushl $12 /* _exit() code */ pushfl pushl %cs pushl $2f iretl 1: movl $SYS_exit, %eax pushl %eax int $0x80 2: pushl $hello call printf popl %eax jmp 1b .size main, . - main hello: .asciz "Hello from iret\n" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG3NahC3+MBN1Mb4gRArvYAJ463KcW7Ryhk9Q70RpLY1hqKuUFoQCeO9Xw v4RdylW+Gp4TNzhrLNA1Gwo= =0i/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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