Re: Reproducable readv crash (was Re: 2.1.118 ...)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:12:34 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> To judge from the fsck in progress no
>
> To replicate:
> insmod softdog
> readv() from /dev/watchdog
>
> Oops=crash

Fixed.

> Incidentally this showed another bug - strace isn working as root. Probably relatd
> to the fact core dumps are still broken as root.

It should work in my current pre-patches already.

What happens is that strace used to refuse to follow suid exec's even if
root made them, now it allows that if the tracer has CAP_PTRACE set.

Linus

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