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Message-ID: <cc557aab0906120410h71e3ab59neeaf85c3223fd7c6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:10:20 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	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 Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz<dan@...ian.org> wrote:
> 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.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10267
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