From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@digital.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: force_successful_syscall_return() buggy?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:35:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030619173547.GA9514@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16111.25976.768140.306522@napali.hpl.hp.com>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:01:12PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Aneesh> I was facing a simillar problem with ptrace on Alpha (ptrace
> Aneesh> on alpha expect the pt_regs at current + 2*PAGE_SIZE for
> Aneesh> 2.4. kernel ) w.r.t www.openssi.org project. What i found
> Aneesh> was that even after we return to user space subsequent
> Aneesh> syscalls are not putting pt_regs at that offset. I guess
> Aneesh> while entering the kernel kernel stack pointer always point
> Aneesh> to value stored in thread_struct.ksp ?
>
> If a platform doesn't start with an empty kernel stack on entry from
> user-space, that platform will be wasting (precious) stack space and
> ptrace() most likely won't work reliably. Personally, I'd consider
> such behavior a bug...
So would I. It's now fixed.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-19 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <fa.gvpfoqi.ngk8p2@ifi.uio.no>
2003-06-17 6:54 ` force_successful_syscall_return() buggy? Aneesh Kumar K.V
2003-06-17 19:01 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-17 18:58 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-19 17:35 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2003-06-15 18:36 Russell King
2003-06-15 23:11 ` Richard Henderson
2003-06-16 2:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-16 17:38 ` David Mosberger
2003-06-16 17:55 ` Russell King
2003-06-16 18:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 18:25 ` David Mosberger
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