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| author |   Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2007-09-24 16:52:44 -0700 |
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| committer |   Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-09-25 20:40:41 +1000 |
| commit | 474f81967217f3bec2389ae913da72641f2c40e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c9e16b05eeb0f56c49dcf61b145732569010ec8 /arch/powerpc/kernel | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.23-rc8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-474f81967217f3bec2389ae913da72641f2c40e3.tar.xz linux-dev-474f81967217f3bec2389ae913da72641f2c40e3.zip | |
[POWERPC] Ensure FULL_REGS on exec
When PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC is used, a ptrace call to fetch the registers at
the PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop (PTRACE_PEEKUSR) will oops in CHECK_FULL_REGS.
With recent versions, "gdb --args /bin/sh -c 'exec /bin/true'" and "run" at
the (gdb) prompt is sufficient to produce this. I also have written an
isolated test case, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301791#c15.
This change fixes the problem by clearing the low bit of pt_regs.trap in
start_thread so that FULL_REGS is true again. This is correct since all of
the GPRs that "full" refers to are cleared in start_thread.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index e477c9d0498b..8a1b001d0b11 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -605,6 +605,13 @@ void start_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long start, unsigned long sp) regs->ccr = 0; regs->gpr[1] = sp; + /* + * We have just cleared all the nonvolatile GPRs, so make + * FULL_REGS(regs) return true. This is necessary to allow + * ptrace to examine the thread immediately after exec. + */ + regs->trap &= ~1UL; + #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 regs->mq = 0; regs->nip = start; |