Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add new PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP option, make it control new ptrace behavior.

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday 06 September 2011 22:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/05, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> > Add new PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP option, make it control new ptrace behavior.
> >
> > Introduce new ptrace option, PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP. This makes API
> > more symmetric: every PTRACE_EVENT_event has corresponding PTRACE_O_TRACEevent now,
> > as it used to have before PTRACE_SEIZE was introduced.
> >
> > PTRACE_SEIZE does not assume PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP, but with this patch
> > it allows any PTRACE_O_opts to be set at attach time
> 
> Well. This assumes that the only difference with PTRACE_SEIZE is the
> new stop/interrupt behaviour. I am not sure this is "safe" to assume.

I'd say that with this change, PTRACE_SEIZE is just PTRACE_ATTACH
with the possibility to set options on attach. Nothing more.

> Tejun, what do you think?


> >  int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
> >  		   unsigned long addr, unsigned long data)
> >  {
> > -	bool seized = child->ptrace & PT_SEIZED;
> > +	bool stop_events_enabled = child->ptrace & PT_TRACE_STOP;
> 
> May be ptrace_event_enabled(child, PTRACE_EVENT_STOP) looks better...
> The same about other PT_TRACE_STOP checks, although this is cosmetic.

Good idea. I will send a new patch a bit later.

> And. Given that you can set/clear PT_TRACE_STOP in ptrace_setoptions(),
> you need the locking.
>
> Just for example. do_signal_stop() calls ptrace_trap_notify() and hits
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!PT_TRACE_STOP) because it was cleared in between.

PTRACE_SETOPTIONS can be used only on stopped tracees. Can do_signal_stop()
run on a tracee while it is stopped?

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