From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968532AbcA0ViG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:38:06 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:42972 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967711AbcA0Uhz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:37:55 -0500 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Vegard Nossum , Richard Weinberger , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 097/268] uml: flush stdout before forking Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:32:38 -0800 Message-Id: <1453926929-17663-98-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1453926929-17663-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1453926929-17663-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt3 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Vegard Nossum commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream. I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output somewhere would cause output to get duplicated: $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40 Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE OK Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE OK Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE OK Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child exits. A simple workaround is to flush before forking. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c index 47f1ff0..22a358e 100644 --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c @@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ static int start_ptraced_child(void) { int pid, n, status; + fflush(stdout); + pid = fork(); if (pid == 0) ptrace_child(); -- 1.9.1