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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2007-09-05 03:05:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-09-10 18:57:47 -0700 |
| commit | 7d94143291e4e625e2bc3b1ebdc7143ee7a9a2f1 (patch) | |
| tree | c4f8a974a33dd6ac1feacf18f217ee326c8af5eb /Documentation/memory.txt | |
| parent | 897ee77bfba12b83752027427a41009961458ee6 (diff) | |
Fix spurious syscall tracing after PTRACE_DETACH + PTRACE_ATTACH
When PTRACE_SYSCALL was used and then PTRACE_DETACH is used, the
TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE flag is left set on the formerly-traced task. This
means that when a new tracer comes along and does PTRACE_ATTACH, it's
possible he gets a syscall tracing stop even though he's never used
PTRACE_SYSCALL. This happens if the task was in the middle of a system
call when the second PTRACE_ATTACH was done. The symptom is an
unexpected SIGTRAP when the tracer thinks that only SIGSTOP should have
been provoked by his ptrace calls so far.
A few machines already fixed this in ptrace_disable (i386, ia64, m68k).
But all other machines do not, and still have this bug. On x86_64, this
constitutes a regression in IA32 compatibility support.
Since all machines now use TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE for this, I put the
clearing of TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE in the generic ptrace_detach code rather
than adding it to every other machine's ptrace_disable.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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