Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ptrace: Fix syscall skipping via PTRACE_SYSCALL

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 04:43:40PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> +Jiaxun
> 
> On 17/7/26 13:27, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > If tracer wanted to skip a syscall return value was always
> > overwritten with -ENOSYS. Fix this by checking against original
> > syscall number and only return -ENOSYS, if it is negative.
> > 
> > Fixes: b6318a903d06 ("MIPS/ptrace: Pick up ptrace/seccomp changed syscalls")
> 
> I think you meant:
> 
> Fixes: 4370b673ccf2 ("MIPS: scall: Save thread_info.syscall unconditionally
> on entry")

no it was already broken before that commit.

b6318a903d06 reloads syscall number after tracehook_report_syscall_entry() so
the check for negative syscall is done with the "manipulated" syscall number.
And it the syscall should be skipped that number is -1.

Thomas.

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