linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: make PTRACE_GETREGSET return 32-bit regs if 64-bit process entered kernel with int 80

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:18:42 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make PTRACE_GETREGSET return 32-bit regs if
	64-bit process entered kernel with int 80

On 02/14, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> On 02/14/2013 07:00 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> On 02/14, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> Determining personality of a ptraced process is a murky area.
>>> On x86, for years strace was looking at segment selectors,
>>> which is conceptually wrong: see, for example,
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/320
>>>
>
> One proposal that keeps being on the table is to export a regset with
> metadatam, including process mode at launch (i386, x86-64, x32).

Yes... but if this metadata includes TS_COMPAT-is-set, then strace should
do PTRACE_GETREGSET(REGSET_META) + PTRACE_GETREGSET(REGSET_GENERAL) every
time. Or REGSET_META should include META+GENERAL.

IOW, it is not clear to me what this "meta" should actually report.

Oleg.


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