[PATCH 0/7] uprobes: single-step fixes

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Sep 03 2012 - 11:23:15 EST


Hello.

In short: uprobes should not use user_enable/disable_single_step().
This is unneeded and wrong.

Sebastian, I changed your patches a bit:

1/7:

- Change the subject and update the changelog. In particular,
s/utrace/uprobes/. I am wondering where this typo came from ;)

2/7:

- Rename UPROBE_TF_CHANGES to UPROBE_FIX_SETF to match other
*_FIX_* defines.

- Update the changelog.

- !!!REMOVE send_sig(SIGTRAP) from arch_uprobe_disable_step!!!
Didn't I ask you to make a separate patch for this change? ;)

This "else send_sig(SIGTRAP)" is very wrong. Just suppose an
application does asm ("pushf; popf") and the 2nd insn is probed.
And otoh this is not enough.

See 6/7.

please let me know if you disagree.

Oleg.

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