linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] ptrace: kill clone/exec tracehooks

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:33:20 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] ptrace: kill clone/exec tracehooks

On 06/17, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly
> just add an extra layer of obfuscation.

Yes, this is true.

> @@ -1481,10 +1481,22 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
>  	}
>
>  	/*
> -	 * When called from kernel_thread, don't do user tracing stuff.
> +	 * Determine whether and which event to report to ptracer.  When
> +	 * called from kernel_thread or CLONE_UNTRACED is explicitly
> +	 * requested, no event is reported; otherwise, report if the event
> +	 * for the type of forking is enabled.
>  	 */
> -	if (likely(user_mode(regs)))
> -		trace = tracehook_prepare_clone(clone_flags);
> +	if (likely(user_mode(regs)) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_UNTRACED)) {

Off-topic, but I never understood this user_mode() check... OK, a
traced task can call kernel_thread() in kernel, but this used
CLONE_UNTRACED.

> +		if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK)
> +			trace = PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK;
> +		else if ((clone_flags & CSIGNAL) != SIGCHLD)
> +			trace = PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE;
> +		else
> +			trace = PTRACE_EVENT_FORK;
> +
> +		if (likely(!ptrace_event_enabled(current, trace)))
> +			trace = 0;
> +	}

As I said am going to apply this all except 6/7, but imho this
deserves a trivial helper anyway.

Oleg.

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