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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplify PTRACE_foo constants and PTRACE_SETOPTIONS code
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:37:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908183708.GA28841@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK1hOcMmwbSuDA2g4Tt7EO6sqjq-n-URTnMbr7RszqkMcs5jEA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/08, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> > And it would be great if it explains what the historical bug was and
> > what the intended behavior is.

ptrace_setoptions() always changes ->ptrace, even if it returns
-EINVAL later.

> I'd rather nuke the bug in a follow-up patch (by deleting this line).

Denys, I think it would be much better to send 1/2 which fixes this oddity.

And note that this patch is wrong, I'll comment v3.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07 21:36 [PATCH] Simplify PTRACE_foo constants and PTRACE_SETOPTIONS code Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-08  0:06 ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-08 12:13   ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-09-08 18:37     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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