From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964797AbcBIAG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:06:56 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:59870 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932347AbcBHXyk (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:54:40 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Richard Weinberger" , "Vegard Nossum" Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:53:51 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 38/87] uml: flush stdout before forking In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:a11:96ff:fe28:a980 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.77-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Ben Hutchings --- arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ static int start_ptraced_child(void) { int pid, n, status; + fflush(stdout); + pid = fork(); if (pid == 0) ptrace_child();