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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK and ptrace()
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:27:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090611142700.GA12259@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc557aab0906100325o4fd55e0eveb958915214809e3@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:25:34PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I've got bug in handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. Kernel version is 2.6.28.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Attach using ptrace() to process while it's in a syscall which use
> ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
> on interrupt. The easiest way is to attach to process which is in nanosleep().
> 2. Run a syscall in context of the process like it does gdb.
> 3. Continue the process.
> 
> Results:
> Syscall(nanosleep) return error code 516(ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK). It's
> kernel's internal error
> code and should never appear at userspace.
> 
> It seems ARM-related since I can't reproduce it on x86.

That's because GDB has code to do the right thing on x86.  Consider
filing a GDB bug please.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-11 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 10:25 ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK and ptrace() Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-06-11 14:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-06-12 11:10   ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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