Re: a method to distinguish between syscall-enter/exit-stop

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 12:07:03PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> >> And an unrelated thought:
> >>
> >> 3) Can't we find some way to fix the inability of a ptracer to
> >> distinguish between syscall-enter-stop and syscall-exit-stop?
> >
> > Couldn't we add PTRACE_O_TRACESYSENTRY and PTRACE_O_TRACESYSEXIT along
> > the lines of PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD?
> 
> That might be a nice idea. I haven't written a test to see, but what
> does PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG return on syscall-enter/exit-stop?

The value returned by PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG is the value set along with the
latest PTRACE_EVENT_*.
In case of syscall-enter/exit-stop (which is not a PTRACE_EVENT_*),
there is no particular value set for PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG.


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