Patch "arm64: Clear out any singlestep state on a ptrace detach operation" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-01-27 06:54:46
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Clear out any singlestep state on a ptrace detach operation
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-clear-out-any-singlestep-state-on-a-ptrace-detach-operation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.
From 5db4fd8c52810bd9740c1240ebf89223b171aa70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Blackwood <redacted> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:50:34 +0000 Subject: arm64: Clear out any singlestep state on a ptrace detach operation From: John Blackwood <redacted> commit 5db4fd8c52810bd9740c1240ebf89223b171aa70 upstream. Make sure to clear out any ptrace singlestep state when a ptrace(2) PTRACE_DETACH call is made on arm64 systems. Otherwise, the previously ptraced task will die off with a SIGTRAP signal if the debugger just previously singlestepped the ptraced task. Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <redacted> [will: added comment to justify why this is in the arch code] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <redacted> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ */ void ptrace_disable(struct task_struct *child) { + /* + * This would be better off in core code, but PTRACE_DETACH has + * grown its fair share of arch-specific worts and changing it + * is likely to cause regressions on obscure architectures. + */ + user_disable_single_step(child); } #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john.blackwood@ccur.com are queue-3.14/arm64-clear-out-any-singlestep-state-on-a-ptrace-detach-operation.patch