Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 4 authors, 2025-06-20

Re: [PATCH v3 01/13] arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic

From: Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-10 12:23:18

On 09/06/25 11:04 PM, Ada Couprie Diaz wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Remove the unnecessary boolean which always checks if the handler was found
and return early instead.

Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 58f047de3e1c..676fa0231935 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -241,8 +241,6 @@ static void send_user_sigtrap(int si_code)
 static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 			       struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	bool handler_found = false;
-
 	/*
 	 * If we are stepping a pending breakpoint, call the hw_breakpoint
 	 * handler first.
@@ -250,10 +248,10 @@ static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 	if (!reinstall_suspended_bps(regs))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!handler_found && call_step_hook(regs, esr) == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
-		handler_found = true;
+	if (call_step_hook(regs, esr) == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
+		return 0;
 
-	if (!handler_found && user_mode(regs)) {
+	if (user_mode(regs)) {
 		send_user_sigtrap(TRAP_TRACE);
 
 		/*
@@ -263,7 +261,7 @@ static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 		 * to the active-not-pending state).
 		 */
 		user_rewind_single_step(current);
-	} else if (!handler_found) {
+	} else {
 		pr_warn("Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1\n");
 		/*
 		 * Re-enable stepping since we know that we will be
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
Existing semantics here is preserved.

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted>
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