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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Blaisorblade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>,
	Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: [PATCH] UML - Fix setting of TIF_SIGPENDING
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:44:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412032144.iB3LiZZW004698@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)

From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>

My older patch, that sets TIF_SIGPENDING after an ptrace-interception
in syscall_trace() is wrong.
Some syscalls want to be called without any signal pending. If a signal
is pending on syscall-entry, they immediately return with -ERESTARTNOINTR.
Thus, on return to user, the pending signals can be processed and the
kernel will lower eip by 2 to have the syscall restarted after that.
Since my change sets TIF_SIGPENDING on the entry and exit interception,
stracing such a syscall looped! Try "strace ls" to see what happens.
Fix: set TIF_SIGPENDING on the exit interception only. This avoids the
loop and is enough for security.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

Index: 2.6.9/arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.9.orig/arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c	2004-12-01 23:43:11.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.6.9/arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c	2004-12-01 23:52:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@
 	tracesysgood = (current->ptrace & PT_TRACESYSGOOD) && !is_singlestep;
 	ptrace_notify(SIGTRAP | (tracesysgood ? 0x80 : 0));
 
-	/* force do_signal() --> is_syscall() */
-	set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
+	if (entryexit) /* force do_signal() --> is_syscall() */
+		set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
 
 	/* this isn't the same as continuing with a signal, but it will do
 	 * for normal use.  strace only continues with a signal if the


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