Re: Regression in ptrace (Wine) starting with 2.6.33-rc1

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 05:33:13PM +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 2.6.33-rc1 broke ptrace for Wine, specifically the setting of the debug
> registers. This is visible in the Wine ntdll exception tests failing on
> 2.6.33-rcX while they work just fine in 2.6.32.
> 
> A regression test resulted in:
> 72f674d203cd230426437cdcf7dd6f681dad8b0d is the first bad commit
> commit 72f674d203cd230426437cdcf7dd6f681dad8b0d
> Author: K.Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jun 1 23:45:48 2009 +0530
> 
>     hw-breakpoints: modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers
> 
>     This patch modifies the ptrace code to use the new wrapper routines
> around
> the
>     debug/breakpoint registers.
> 
>     [ Impact: adapt x86 ptrace to the new breakpoint Api ]
> 
>     Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> :040000 040000 f72ff4760c3fa1dffcd72494e77bee2c76039505
> b60d5fe2088ff635568e800d5759a0b373b5e439 M      arch
> 
> 
> The first ntdll exception test in test_exceptions()
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=dlls/ntdll/tests/exception.c;h=9149b6961764dec31a0af5cd3b93ab3072703dbb;hb=312e4f6b235a468f8bf764101a5b97cf34dd4143#l594
>   run_exception_test(dreg_handler, NULL, &segfault_code,
> sizeof(segfault_code),
> 0);
> produces (make exception.ok) the output:
>   err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 932 bytes in thread 0009 eip
> 7bc3c97f esp 00240f8c stack 0x240000-0x241000-0x340000
> The stack overflow is detected by the ntdll internal function
> setup_exception_record()
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=dlls/ntdll/signal_i386.c;h=4eccb61954c43d75144575411313d59405decfc3;hb=312e4f6b235a468f8bf764101a5b97cf34dd4143#l1495
> which aborts the thread.
> The problem happens on both i386 (Intel Atom CPU) as well as on x86_64
> (Intel Q9450); the stack overflow bytes differ though but are always the
> same for each box.
> 
> All the ntdll exception tests run just fine with 2.6.32 and older
> kernels. For a summary of the ntdll exception tests please see
> http://test.winehq.org/data/tests/ntdll:exception.html in the Wine
> column.
> 
> I have opened also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15273 for
> this.
> 
> thanks
> bye
>     michael


Thanks a lot for your report. Is there an easy way to reproduce
this?

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