Also PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS should be accepted, as done by kernel/ptrace.c and forced by binary compatibility. UML/32bit breaks because of this - since it is wise enough to use PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS to be binary compatible with 2.4 host kernels. Until 2.6.17 (commit f0f2d6536e3515b5b1b7ae97dc8f176860c8c2ce) we had: default: return sys_ptrace(request, pid, addr, data); Instead here we have: case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA: case ...: return sys_ptrace(request, pid, addr, data); default: return -EINVAL; This change was a style change - when a case is added, it must be explicitly tested this way. In this case, not enough testing was done. Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c +++ linux-2.6.20.1/arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_ptrace(long reques case PTRACE_SINGLESTEP: case PTRACE_DETACH: case PTRACE_SYSCALL: + case PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS: case PTRACE_SETOPTIONS: case PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA: case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA: -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/