This patch fixes x86, other machines need the similar fix. Hopefully maintainers can help. If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent. This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in this case it is killed by SIGTRAP. Test-case: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { int pid, status; if (!(pid = fork())) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); if (!fork()) { /* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */ printf("Hello world\n"); return 43; } wait(&status); return WEXITSTATUS(status); } for (;;) { assert(pid == wait(&status)); if (WIFEXITED(status)) break; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0); } assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43); return 0; } Tested on x86_64, hopefully the change in process_32.c is right too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 3 +++ arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) --- V1/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c~FORK_CLEAR_TIF_SINGLESTEP 2009-09-15 08:45:40.000000000 +0200 +++ V1/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c 2009-11-06 21:51:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag childregs->ax = 0; childregs->sp = sp; + childregs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF; + p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.sp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); @@ -287,6 +289,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DS_AREA_MSR); p->thread.ds_ctx = NULL; + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SINGLESTEP); clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR); p->thread.debugctlmsr = 0; --- V1/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c~FORK_CLEAR_TIF_SINGLESTEP 2009-09-15 08:45:40.000000000 +0200 +++ V1/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2009-11-06 21:45:16.000000000 +0100 @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag if (sp == ~0UL) childregs->sp = (unsigned long)childregs; + childregs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF; + p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) childregs; p->thread.sp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); p->thread.usersp = me->thread.usersp; @@ -332,6 +334,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DS_AREA_MSR); p->thread.ds_ctx = NULL; + clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SINGLESTEP); clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR); p->thread.debugctlmsr = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html