arm syscall fast path can miss a ptrace syscall-exit

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Jun 1 03:24:48 PDT 2015


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:13:18PM +0100, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 03:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 03:38:24PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> >> Do you plan to commit this check for syscall flags?
> > 
> > It's been committed since 15th May, but as it's the only fix I have
> > queued up (and my focus has been elsewhere) it hasn't been sent yet.
> > It's been in linux-next for a while now.
> 
> Ok, thanks, I see it there.
> 
> How about the same fix for arm64?  I see you don't work much on that, so
> should I post that patch myself?

Yes, please. If you post your arm64 patch with me and Catalin on Cc, then
we'll make sure it gets queued up.

Thanks,

Will



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