linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] semantics of singlestepping vs. tracer exiting

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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:08:24 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] semantics of singlestepping vs. tracer exiting

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:39:38PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > BTW, speaking of alpha, what about PTRACE_SINGLESTEP when the task is stopped
> > on syscall entry/exit after previous PTRACE_SYSCALL, BTW?  Looks like it will
> > be like PTRACE_CONT until we hit the first signal, at which point it converts
> > to singlesteping mode; unless I'm seriously misreading that code, we rely
> > on ptrace_set_bpt() done shortly after returning from get_signal_to_deliver()
> > if we found that we'd been singlestepping.  Fine, but in this case we
> > had been resumed *not* in get_signal_to_deliver()...
> 
> Again, "single_stepping |= ptrace_cancel_bpt()" after get_signal_to_deliver()
> should work I think... Not sure.

Umm...  What would get us anywhere near get_signal_to_deliver() in this
case?  Look: we do PTRACE_SYSCALL and tracee stops on the way into the
system call.  We are blocked in ptrace_notify() called from syscall_trace().
Tracer does PTRACE_SINGLESTEP; that resumes the tracee and sets ->bpt_nsaved
to -1.  The 'data' argument of ptrace() is 0, so tracee->exit_code is 0
so no signals are sent.  TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE is cleared.  And we are off
to execute the syscall and return to userland, without having hit do_signal()
on the way out.  No breakpoint insns are patched in, so we happily proceed
to run the process until a signal arrives, same as we would with PTRACE_CONT.
What am I missing here?
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