Re: vfork(2) behavior not consistent with fork(2)

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Alejandro Colomar:

>> $ sudo ./vfork_newpid
>> vfork_newpid: PID: 8479
>> vfork_newpid: PID 8479 exiting after execve(2): Success
>> print_pid: PID 1 exiting. 
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> I definitely think this is a kernel (or glibc) bug.
> execve(2) is supposed to _never_ return 0 (and errno 0).
> I submitted a new bug to discuss it.
>
> Please see <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215813>

It's not clear if this is valid.  The syscall function in glibc does not
protect the on-stack return address against overwriting, so it can't be
used to call SYS_vfork on x86.

Can you reproduce this with a true inline syscall, or the glibc vfork
function (which protects the return address)?

Thanks,
Florian