kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping

On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
index 8f6d58ede33..6e152c80cd4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -236,8 +236,7 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int vector, int signo, int err_code,
 
 		atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step, -1);
 		if (remcom_in_buffer[0] == 's')
-			if (kgdb_contthread)
-				atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step, cpu);
+			atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step, cpu);
 
 		return 0;
 	}