Re: [REGRESSION] 5.16rc1: SA_IMMUTABLE breaks debuggers

From: Kyle Huey
Date: Fri Nov 19 2021 - 11:07:56 EST


On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:12 AM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kyle thank you for your explanation of what breaks. For future kernels
> I do need to do some work in this area and I will copy on the patches
> going forward. In particular I strongly suspect that changing the
> sigaction and blocked state of the signal for these synchronous signals
> is the wrong thing to do, especially if the process is not killed. I
> want to find another solution that does not break things but that also
> does not change the program state behind the programs back so things
> work differently under the debugger.

The heads up in the future is appreciated, thanks.

- Kyle