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hw_breakpoint_arch_parse() positions the BAS bit pattern in
hw->ctrl.len with
offset = hw->address & alignment_mask; /* 0..7 */
hw->ctrl.len <<= offset;
ctrl.len is an 8-bit bitfield (struct arch_hw_breakpoint_ctrl::len is
u32 :8), so the shift silently drops any bits past bit 7. For
non-compat AArch64 watchpoints the offset is unbounded relative to
ctrl.len: a perf_event_open(PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT) caller asking for
HW_BREAKPOINT_W with bp_addr=page+1 and bp_len=HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8
ends up with 0xff << 1 = 0x1fe, stored as 0xfe. The kernel programs
WCR.BAS=0xfe and the hardware watches bytes [1..7] instead of the
requested [1..8] -- the eighth byte is silently dropped. The
syscall still returns success, leaving userspace to discover the
gap by empirical probing.
The same class affects HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_{2,4} when offset pushes the
high BAS bit past bit 7 (e.g. LEN_4 with offset=5 yields 0xe0
instead of 0x1e0). No memory-safety impact -- the value is masked
into 8 bits before encoding -- but debuggers and perf users observe
missed events on bytes they thought they were watching.
The AArch32 branch immediately above already rejects unrepresentable
(offset, len) combinations via an explicit switch. Mirror that for
the non-compat branch by checking that the shifted pattern fits in
the BAS field, returning -EINVAL when it does not.
GDB and similar debuggers are unaffected by the stricter check.
aarch64_linux_set_debug_regs() already treats EINVAL on
NT_ARM_HW_WATCH as a downgrade signal: it clears
kernel_supports_any_contiguous_range, calls aarch64_downgrade_regs()
to round the BAS up to a legacy 0x01/03/0f/ff mask with an aligned
base, and retries -- the same fallback path that PR-20207 introduced.
The new -EINVAL is therefore reachable only from a raw
perf_event_open() that pairs an unaligned base with an oversized
bp_len, which is precisely the bug.
Reproducer:
struct perf_event_attr a = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT, .size = sizeof(a),
.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_W,
.bp_addr = (uintptr_t)(buf + 1),
.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8,
.exclude_kernel = 1, .exclude_hv = 1,
};
int fd = perf_event_open(&a, 0, -1, -1, 0);
/* before this fix: succeeds, watches 7 bytes (buf+1..buf+7) */
/* after this fix: fails with EINVAL */
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