Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Thu, 2 May 2019 13:25:56 -0700 |
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> On May 2, 2019, at 12:28 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2 May 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> I forget: is #BP _only_ for the "int3" instruction? > > Hmm, according to 17.3.2 in vol 3 of SDM (and table 6-1 there), that > indeed seems to be the case, so we should be fine.
I’m reasonably confident that the absurd MOV SS; INT3 sequence results in #BP from user mode and then #DB inside that (as opposed to vice versa), so this should be okay.
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