From 6580807da14c423f0d0a708108e6df6ebc8bc83d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ptrace: copy_process() should disable stepping If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent. This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in this case it is killed by SIGTRAP. Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86. Test-case: #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(void) { int pid, status; if (!(pid = fork())) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); if (!fork()) { /* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */ printf("Hello world\n"); return 43; } wait(&status); return WEXITSTATUS(status); } for (;;) { assert(pid == wait(&status)); if (WIFEXITED(status)) break; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0); } assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b6cbd33dde8..202a0ba63d3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1210,9 +1210,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->sas_ss_sp = p->sas_ss_size = 0; /* - * Syscall tracing should be turned off in the child regardless - * of CLONE_PTRACE. + * Syscall tracing and stepping should be turned off in the + * child regardless of CLONE_PTRACE. */ + user_disable_single_step(p); clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE); #ifdef TIF_SYSCALL_EMU clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_EMU); -- 2.39.2