[RFC] ptrace: system call number interpretation during PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL request handling

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill at shutemov.name
Thu Sep 17 16:41:43 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill at shutemov.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:30:27PM +0300, Volodymyr G. Lukiianyk wrote:
>>> I've encountered a problem while running strace on the kernel with
>>> CONFIG_AEABI not set. This problem can be worked around in userspace,
>>> but it looks like the correct place for a fix is the kernel.
>>
>> I'm really nervous about this.  I need to check what my own strace
>> patches do - and if they don't suffer from this problem I'd say that
>> the bug lies in userspace.
>
> Any results? Do we need to workaround it in user space or it will be
> fixed in kernel?

Russell?



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