Re: Mutual debugging of 2 processes can stuck in unkillable stopped state

From: Igor Zhbanov
Date: Mon Apr 12 2021 - 03:25:19 EST


Hi Oleg,

So what is the cause of this problem?

Thank you.

On 29.03.2021 20:44, Igor Zhbanov wrote:

Here is the processes stack before sending any signals to them:

izh@suse2:~> sudo cat /proc/1751/stack
[<0>] ptrace_stop+0x14e/0x260
[<0>] ptrace_do_notify+0x91/0xb0
[<0>] ptrace_notify+0x4e/0x70
[<0>] syscall_slow_exit_work+0x90/0x150
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x129/0x1f0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

izh@suse2:~> sudo cat /proc/1979/stack
[<0>] ptrace_stop+0x14e/0x260
[<0>] get_signal+0x4d5/0x840
[<0>] do_signal+0x30/0x6a0
[<0>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x8b/0x120
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x1c3/0x1f0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Igor, thanks for your report, but (I think) this has nothing to do
with mutual debugging. I'll return to this problem in a couple of
days, I'm a bit busy right now.