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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] ptrace: x86: stepping in a signal handler leaks X86_EFLAGS_TF
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:38:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100606163848.GA19800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100602192318.GA26735@redhat.com>

On 06/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> I am starting to think we should fix this per arch. As for x86, perhaps
> we should start with this one-liner
>
> 		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
>
> 		tracehook_signal_handler(sig, info, ka, regs,
> 	-				 test_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP));
> 	+				 test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_SINGLESTEP));
>
> 		return 0;
> 	 }
>
> then do other changes.

I am sending this patch. It is still not clear to me what is the
"right" fix, we need more discussion. Let's fix the bug first.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-06 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02 19:23 Bug 16061 - single stepping in a signal handler can cause the single step flag to get "stuck" Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-02 20:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-06 16:38 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-06-06 16:39   ` [PATCH 1/1] ptrace: x86: stepping in a signal handler leaks X86_EFLAGS_TF Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-16  2:31 ` Bug 16061 - single stepping in a signal handler can cause the single step flag to get "stuck" Roland McGrath
2010-06-16 19:56   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-16 20:53     ` Roland McGrath

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