linux-kernel - [PATCH] UML - Improve host PTRACE

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Message-ID: <20070605205750.GA9851@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:57:50 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [PATCH] UML - Improve host PTRACE_SYSEMU check

Make the PTRACE_SYSEMU checking more robust.  It will make sure that
system call numbers are reported correctly.  If there is a problem, it
will disable PTRACE_SYSEMU use and use PTRACE_SYSCALL instead.

This fixes a hang on boot on FC6 hosts with a broken PTRACE_SYSEMU.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
--
 arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c	2007-06-05 16:53:41.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c	2007-06-05 16:54:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -144,9 +144,7 @@ static int stop_ptraced_child(int pid, v
 		int exit_with = WEXITSTATUS(status);
 		if (exit_with == 2)
 			non_fatal("check_ptrace : child exited with status 2. "
-				  "Serious trouble happening! Try updating "
-				  "your host skas patch!\nDisabling SYSEMU "
-				  "support.");
+				  "\nDisabling SYSEMU support.\n");
 		non_fatal("check_ptrace : child exited with exitcode %d, while "
 			  "expecting %d; status 0x%x\n", exit_with,
 			  exitcode, status);
@@ -209,6 +207,7 @@ __uml_setup("nosysemu", nosysemu_cmd_par
 static void __init check_sysemu(void)
 {
 	void *stack;
+	unsigned long regs[MAX_REG_NR];
 	int pid, n, status, count=0;
 
 	non_fatal("Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...");
@@ -225,11 +224,20 @@ static void __init check_sysemu(void)
 		fatal("check_sysemu : expected SIGTRAP, got status = %d",
 		      status);
 
-	n = ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSR, pid, PT_SYSCALL_RET_OFFSET,
-		   os_getpid());
-	if(n < 0)
-		fatal_perror("check_sysemu : failed to modify system call "
-			     "return");
+	if(ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, pid, 0, regs) < 0)
+		fatal_perror("check_sysemu : PTRACE_GETREGS failed");
+	if(PT_SYSCALL_NR(regs) != __NR_getpid){
+		non_fatal("check_sysemu got system call number %d, "
+			  "expected %d...", PT_SYSCALL_NR(regs), __NR_getpid);
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
+	n = ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSR, pid, PT_SYSCALL_RET_OFFSET, os_getpid());
+	if(n < 0){
+		non_fatal("check_sysemu : failed to modify system call "
+			  "return");
+		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	if (stop_ptraced_child(pid, stack, 0, 0) < 0)
 		goto fail_stopped;
-
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