Re: 2.6.15-rc1-mm1 panic in ptrace_check_attach()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 13:07:28 EST


On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:56:40AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I am not sure if its already reported. I get panic in
> ptrace_check_attach() while trying to run UML on 2.6.15-rc1-mm1.
>
> Going to try 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 now.

Looks like 2.6.15-rc1-mm1 has total crap in ptrace_get_task_struct
(and it looks like my fault because I sent out a wrong patch).

The patch below should fix it:

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/ptrace.c 2005-11-18 10:25:35.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c 2005-11-18 10:25:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
if (!child)
return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
- return 0;
+ return child;
}

#ifndef __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE
-
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