On 02/26/2014 12:00 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:14:43AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Currently syscall_trace() is called only for ptrace.
> With additional TIF_xx flags defined, it is now called in all the cases
> of audit, ftrace and seccomp in addition to ptrace.
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi(a)linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h |   13 ++++++++++
>   arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S            |    5 ++--
>   arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c           |   45 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) 
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 6a8928b..c70133e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -1062,31 +1062,30 @@ asmlinkage int syscall_trace(int dir, struct pt_regs *regs)
>   {
>   	unsigned long saved_reg;
>
> -	if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
> -		return regs->syscallno;
> -
> -	if (is_compat_task()) {
> -		/* AArch32 uses ip (r12) for scratch */
> -		saved_reg = regs->regs[12];
> -		regs->regs[12] = dir;
> -	} else {
> -		/*
> -		 * Save X7. X7 is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
> -		 *   X7 = 0 -> entry, = 1 -> exit
> -		 */
> -		saved_reg = regs->regs[7];
> -		regs->regs[7] = dir;
> -	}
> +	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)) {
> +		if (is_compat_task()) {
> +			/* AArch32 uses ip (r12) for scratch */
> +			saved_reg = regs->regs[12];
> +			regs->regs[12] = dir;
> +		} else {
> +			/*
> +			 * Save X7. X7 is used to denote syscall entry/exit:
> +			 *   X7 = 0 -> entry, = 1 -> exit
> +			 */
> +			saved_reg = regs->regs[7];
> +			regs->regs[7] = dir;
> +		}
>
> -	if (dir)
> -		tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
> -	else if (tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> -		regs->syscallno = ~0UL;
> +		if (dir)
> +			tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);
> +		else if (tracehook_report_syscall_entry(regs))
> +			regs->syscallno = ~0UL;
>
> -	if (is_compat_task())
> -		regs->regs[12] = saved_reg;
> -	else
> -		regs->regs[7] = saved_reg;
> +		if (is_compat_task())
> +			regs->regs[12] = saved_reg;
> +		else
> +			regs->regs[7] = saved_reg;
> +	}
 Aren't these changes (to ptrace.c) just a giant NOP? 
Umm, the purpose of this big "if" is to run the code only if TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE
is set,
and to make it easy to add additional hooks, audit and ftrace, around
tracehook_report_*()
later on.
-Takahiro AKASHI
 Will