[PATCH 4.4 101/342] uml: flush stdout before forking
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-03-02 01:06:08
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vegard Nossum <redacted>
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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
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@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ static int start_ptraced_child(void) { int pid, n, status; + fflush(stdout); + pid = fork(); if (pid == 0) ptrace_child();