Re: Q: ptrace_signal() && PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (Was: SIGSTOP && ptrace)

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 04/23, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Yes. PTRACE_SETSIGINFO can change *info if debugger wants something
> > special. But then we do:
> >
> > 	if (signr != info->si_signo) {
> > 		info->si_signo = signr;
> [...]
> > Why? If the tracer changes ->exit_code it should know what it does.
>
> If it uses PTRACE_SETSIGINFO it should know what it does, and update
> the siginfo_t to match the signal it passes to PTRACE_CONT et al.
>
> > Why do we reset *info?
>
> PTRACE_SETSIGINFO did not always exist, and even now might not be used by a
> simple-minded application.  If the user is sophisticated, it calls
> PTRACE_SETSIGINFO and then passes the signal number to match.  If not, it
> never calls PTRACE_SETSIGINFO at all, but expects the signal number it
> chose to pass in PTRACE_CONT to behave "normally" in the tracee.

OK, understand.

> > But the real question, how can PTRACE_SETSIGINFO change ->si_signo
> > (for example, for do_signal_stop(si_signo)) if this in fact is not
> > allowed?
>
> It's allowed.  You just have to pass the same value you set in si_signo as
> the argument to PTRACE_CONT after you do PTRACE_SETSIGINFO.

Yes, yes, I see. I meant "the tracer can not use signr != ->si_signo",
but now I don't see the reason it should.

Oleg.