linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/ptrace: Remove questionable TS

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Message-ID: <5fd9818c-4bf5-753a-535c-b03c2dfaad47@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2016 15:41:15 +0100
From:	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/ptrace: Remove questionable TS_COMPAT usage in ptrace

On 06/18/2016 02:55 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> This hunk being mentioned in this thread a couple years ago too:
> 
>  https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-04/msg00095.html
> 
> Please don't break this use case ( and fix the one reported in
> that thread :-) ).

BTW, there was a follow up v2 patch to that last url, here:

 [PATCH v2] Fix get ERESTARTSYS with m32 in x86_64 when debug by GDB
 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-05/msg00004.html

(for some reason, I can only find the ping on the lkml, not the
 original post, though it was apparently CCed.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves