From 7d94143291e4e625e2bc3b1ebdc7143ee7a9a2f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:05:56 -0700 Subject: Fix spurious syscall tracing after PTRACE_DETACH + PTRACE_ATTACH When PTRACE_SYSCALL was used and then PTRACE_DETACH is used, the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE flag is left set on the formerly-traced task. This means that when a new tracer comes along and does PTRACE_ATTACH, it's possible he gets a syscall tracing stop even though he's never used PTRACE_SYSCALL. This happens if the task was in the middle of a system call when the second PTRACE_ATTACH was done. The symptom is an unexpected SIGTRAP when the tracer thinks that only SIGSTOP should have been provoked by his ptrace calls so far. A few machines already fixed this in ptrace_disable (i386, ia64, m68k). But all other machines do not, and still have this bug. On x86_64, this constitutes a regression in IA32 compatibility support. Since all machines now use TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE for this, I put the clearing of TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE in the generic ptrace_detach code rather than adding it to every other machine's ptrace_disable. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c index 122444a97897..2e96f17b2f3b 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1577,7 +1577,6 @@ sys_ptrace (long request, pid_t pid, unsigned long addr, unsigned long data) case PTRACE_DETACH: /* detach a process that was attached. */ - clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE); ret = ptrace_detach(child, data); goto out_tsk; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b