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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:21:33 +0100
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
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Subject: Re: Compat 32-bit syscall entry from 64-bit task!?
On Thursday 26 January 2012 01:59, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > (2) syscall exit compat-ness is known from entry type - no need to indicate it; and
> > (3) if we would flag syscall entry with an event value in wait status, then syscall
> > exit will be already distinquisable.
> >
> > Thus, minimally we need one new option, PTRACE_O_TRACE_SYSENTRY -
> > "on syscall entry ptrace stop, set a nonzero event value in wait status"
> > , and two event values: PTRACE_EVENT_SYSCALL_ENTRY (for native entry),
> > PTRACE_EVENT_SYSCALL_ENTRY1 for compat one.
>
> PTRACE_EVENT_SYSCALL_EXIT would cleanly indicate that the new option
> is actually working without the tracer needing to do a fork+test, if
> PTRACE_ATTACH is used and for some reason the tracer sees a syscall
> exit first.
Can't happen. After PTRACE_ATTACH, you can only see tracee dying, or
getting a signal delivery (usually a SIGSTOP). Anything else
would be a kernel bug.
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