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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Fabiano Ramos <ramos_fabiano@yahoo.com.br>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ptrace in 2.6.5
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:07:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511140722.GA13568@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405102340260.1156@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com>

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:41:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 May 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > 
> > > On the kernel side, this would be pretty much solved by issuing a ptrace 
> > > op, with a modified EIP (+2) on return from a syscall (if in single-step 
> > > mode).
> > 
> > Actaully, the EIP should not be changed (since it already points to the 
> > intruction following INT 0x80) and I believe it is sufficent to replace 
> > the test for _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE with (_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE | TIF_SINGLESTEP) 
> > in the system call return path. This should generate a ptrace trap with 
> > EIP pointing to the next instruction following INT 0x80.
> 
> The patch below (for i386) should work.

Yeah, that's what I was suggesting.  I think the patch is right.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1UlcA-6lq-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-10 18:49 ` ptrace in 2.6.5 Andi Kleen
2004-05-10 19:37   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-10 20:24   ` Fabiano Ramos
2004-05-10 21:49     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-05-10 22:47       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-05-10 22:58         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-10 23:12           ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-11  0:40           ` Fabiano Ramos
2004-05-11  6:14             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-11  6:27               ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-11  6:41                 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-11 14:07                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-05-10 15:46 Fabiano Ramos
2004-05-10 16:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-10 16:22   ` Fabiano Ramos

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