Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Jun 6, 2016 3:21 PM, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 06/01, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> >
> > Note, that this will work only if application has changed it's CS.
>
> So, suppose it changes it's CS and crashes,
>
> > If the application does 32-bit syscall with __USER_CS, ptrace
> > @@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ void update_regset_xstate_info(unsigned int size, u64 xstate_mask)
> >  const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
> >  {
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> > -     if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IA32))
> > +     if (!user_64bit_mode(task_pt_regs(task)))
> >  #endif
>
> then coredump will do fill_elf_header(view->e_machine) and use EM_X86_64
> instead of EM_386, or vice versa...
>
> I simply can't understand is this better or worse, I guess gdb or any
> other tool which looks at this coredump will be confused anyway.
>

I think it's better. CRIU will change CS and someone will make the
restored process crash afterwards.

> Oleg.
>