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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: fcorneli@elis.rug.ac.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace PTRACE_READDATA/WRITEDATA, kernel 2.5.62
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:21:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E5A6298.3030601@colorfullife.com> (raw)

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:05:14PM +0100, fcorneli@elis.rug.ac.be wrote:

>+		ret = 0;
>+		res = ptrace_readdata(child, addr, (void *)addr2, data);
>+		if (res == data)
>+			break;
>  
>
You mention sparc - have you tested if that works on sparc?
ptrace_readdata assumes that addr2 is a pointer to kernel space, not 
user space. It works by chance on i386, but that's not acceptable for 
merging.
You must double buffer, check mem_read in fs/proc/base.c

Daniel wrote:

>Thirdly, I was going to do this, but I ended up making GDB use pread64
>on /dev/mem instead.  It works with no kernel modifications, and is
>just as fast.
>  
>
I assume you mean /proc/<pid>/mem. Performance is identical, same 
implementation.

--
    Manfred


             reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-24 18:21 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2003-02-25 10:36 ` [PATCH] ptrace PTRACE_READDATA/WRITEDATA, kernel 2.5.62 fcorneli
2003-02-25 17:35   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-02-25 21:36     ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-24 14:05 fcorneli
2003-02-24 14:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-24 14:51   ` fcorneli
2003-02-24 15:02     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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