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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] audit mips fix
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:24:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311232428.GA4402@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311095839.77d7a350.yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:58:39AM +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote:

> > > Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> > 
> > > @@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_syscall_trace(struct 
> > >  {
> > >  	if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) {
> > >  		if (!entryexit)
> > > -			audit_syscall_entry(current, regs->orig_eax,
> > > +			audit_syscall_entry(current, regs->regs[2],
> > 
> > Wrong.  regs[2] can will contain the syscall return value and can be
> > modified by ptrace also.
> 
> Thank you for your comment,
> I consider a good way based on your comment. 
> 
> Do you already have a good idea?

Basically do what x86 did, keep a copy of the the original regs[2] around.
The only potencial problem with this approach is debuggers might be
affected so I want to look into that first.

  Ralf

      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-14 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04 21:16 [patch 4/5] audit mips fix akpm
2005-03-09 18:58 ` Greg KH
2005-03-10 17:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-11  0:58   ` Yoichi Yuasa
2005-03-11 23:24     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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