Re: [PATCH 0/4] (Was: ptrace: prevent PTRACE_SETREGS fromcorrupting stack)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > And we'd need to make sure to re-set the WAKEKILL flag not just in all
> > the callers of ptrace_check_attach(), but also in the failure case of
> > wait_task_inactive(). I'm not sure it can actually fail if we cleared
> > WAKEKILL, but it's all pretty subtle.
>
> Afaics it can't fail if we clear WAKEKILL... So 2/4 assumes it should
> always succeed and adds the warning.

Argh! It can, exactly because we can not kill may_ptrace_stop() yet.
I'll update and resend 2/4.

Oleg.

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