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Commit ac234524 authored by Ravi Bangoria's avatar Ravi Bangoria Committed by Michael Ellerman
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selftests/powerpc: Tests for kernel accessing user memory



Introduce tests to cover simple scenarios where user is watching
memory which can be accessed by kernel as well. We also support
_MODE_EXACT with _SETHWDEBUG interface. Move those testcases outside
of _BP_RANGE condition. This will help to test _MODE_EXACT scenarios
when CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT is not set, eg:

  $ ./ptrace-hwbreak
  ...
  PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, Kernel Access Userspace, len: 8: Ok
  PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, WO, len: 1: Ok
  PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, RO, len: 1: Ok
  PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, RW, len: 1: Ok
  PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, Kernel Access Userspace, len: 1: Ok
  success: ptrace-hwbreak

Suggested-by: default avatarPedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902042945.129369-9-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
parent fa725cc5
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