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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH for 2.6.30] ptrace: revert "ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic"
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:39:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090602203939.GA13939@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090602011318.GA2461@redhat.com>

Commit 95a3540da9c81a5987be810e1d9a83640a366bd5 removed the "extra"
wake_up_process() from ptrace_detach(), but as Jan pointed out this breaks
the compatibility.

I believe the changelog is right and this wake_up() is wrong in many ways.
But GDB assumes that ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, child, 0, 0) always wakes up the
tracee. Despite the fact this breaks SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/group_stop_count logic,
and despite the fact this wake_up_process() can break another assumption:
PTRACE_DETACH with SIGSTOP should leave the tracee in TASK_STOPPED case.
Because the untraced child can dequeue SIGSTOP and call do_signal_stop()
before ptrace_detach() calls wake_up_process().

Revert this change for now. We need some fixes even if we we want to keep
the current behaviour, but these fixes are not for 2.6.30.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *ch
 	if (child->ptrace) {
 		child->exit_code = data;
 		dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child);
+		if (!child->exit_state)
+			wake_up_process(child);
 	}
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 


       reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]           ` <20090602011318.GA2461@redhat.com>
2009-06-02 20:39             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-06-02 20:55               ` [PATCH for 2.6.30] ptrace: revert "ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic" Roland McGrath

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