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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: make PTRACE_DETACH work on non-stopped tracees.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:52:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130619165259.GA16002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C1DF77.5030006@redhat.com>

On 06/19, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> On 06/19/2013 05:09 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:15:36 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> CCing Jan to hear his comments from gdb side.
>
> PTRACE_DETACH takes a signal number in the data parameter.
> What happens to if the tracer passes a non-zero signal?

non-zero doesn't matter, zero is equally bad.

ptrace_detach() simply does child->exit_code = data, assuming
that child will look at it after resume. This is just wrong if
the child is not stopped.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-19 15:15 [PATCH] ptrace: make PTRACE_DETACH work on non-stopped tracees Denys Vlasenko
2013-06-19 16:09 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-06-19 16:42   ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-19 16:52     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-06-19 16:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-06-19 23:19   ` Denys Vlasenko
2013-06-20 13:41     ` Oleg Nesterov

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