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Message-ID: <20090611142700.GA12259@caradoc.them.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:27:00 -0400
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@...ian.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK and ptrace()
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:25:34PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I've got bug in handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. Kernel version is 2.6.28.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Attach using ptrace() to process while it's in a syscall which use
> ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
> on interrupt. The easiest way is to attach to process which is in nanosleep().
> 2. Run a syscall in context of the process like it does gdb.
> 3. Continue the process.
>
> Results:
> Syscall(nanosleep) return error code 516(ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK). It's
> kernel's internal error
> code and should never appear at userspace.
>
> It seems ARM-related since I can't reproduce it on x86.
That's because GDB has code to do the right thing on x86. Consider
filing a GDB bug please.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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