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Hardware debugging in guests is not intercepted currently, it means that a malicious guest can bring down the entire machine by writing to the debug registers. This patch enable trapping of all debug registers, preventing the guests to access the debug registers. This includes access to the debug mode(DBGDSCR) in the guest world all the time which could otherwise mess with the host state. Reads return 0 and writes are ignored (RAZ_WI). The result is the guest cannot detect any working hardware based debug support. As debug exceptions are still routed to the guest normal debug using software based breakpoints still works. To support debugging using hardware registers we need to implement a debug register aware world switch as well as special trapping for registers that may affect the host state. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Zhichao Huang <zhichao.huang@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.