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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup ptrace stops and remove notify_parent
Date: 4 Sep 2004 15:38:22 +0200
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:38:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040904133822.GF33964@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409010156.i811uLdd014564@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:56:21PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I don't have a program like yours to test that it was broken with my patch
> (now in 2.6.9-rc1-mm2).  But the following additional patch relative to
> 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 should do it.  I've tested that it doesn't create any new
> problems.  I don't have something right handy that tests the case in
> question, but you've said that you do.

I am travelling and can't reach the code right now, but I will
test later.

> 
> This makes any ptrace operation that finds the target in TASK_STOPPED state
> morph it into TASK_TRACED state before doing anything.  This necessitates
> reverting the last_siginfo accesses to check instead of assume last_siginfo
> is set, since it's no longer impossible to be in TASK_TRACED without being
> stopped in ptrace_stop (though there are no associated races to worry
> about).

Looks good, thanks.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-04 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2z7vs-2F1-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-31 10:00 ` [PATCH] cleanup ptrace stops and remove notify_parent Andi Kleen
2004-09-01  0:27   ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-01  1:56     ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-04 13:38       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-31 15:59 Albert Cahalan
2004-08-31 23:54 ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-01  0:27   ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-31  3:25 Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-31  4:11   ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  4:26     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-31  5:43       ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  4:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-31  4:50       ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31 13:19       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-08-31 13:56         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-09-01  0:11         ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-01  4:25           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-08-31  9:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-31  9:43       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-01  0:00         ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  3:59 ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  4:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-08-31  4:55   ` Roland McGrath
2004-08-31  4:59     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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