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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: ptrace: don't abuse PT_PTRACED
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:51:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091209205112.GB4351@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091209194651.GA24919@redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Untested, but hopefully trivial enough and should't change the
> compiled code.
> 
> Nobody except ptrace itself should use task->ptrace or PT_PTRACED
> directly, change arch/s390/kernel/traps.c to use the helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

> -	if ((current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) != 0)
> +	if (tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(current, SIGTRAP))
>  		force_sig(SIGTRAP, current);

Thanks, applied. Even though I'm wondering why tracehook_consider_fatal_signal
has a signal parameter and doesn't do anything with it.
Is that something that will change with utrace?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-09 19:46 [PATCH] s390: ptrace: don't abuse PT_PTRACED Oleg Nesterov
2009-12-09 20:51 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2009-12-09 20:54   ` Roland McGrath

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