Re: [PATCH] selftests: breakpoints: Fix wrong argument of ptrace() when single step

[Shuah Khan]

On 2/3/21 1:39 AM, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> According to the error message, the first argument of ptrace() should be
> PTRACE_SINGLESTEP instead of PTRACE_CONT when ptrace single step.
>
> Fixes: f43365ee17f8 ("selftests: arm64: add test for unaligned/inexact watchpoint handling")
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/breakpoints/breakpoint_test_arm64.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/breakpoints/breakpoint_test_arm64.c b/tools/testing/selftests/breakpoints/breakpoint_test_arm64.c
> index ad41ea6..2f4d4d6 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/breakpoints/breakpoint_test_arm64.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/breakpoints/breakpoint_test_arm64.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static bool run_test(int wr_size, int wp_size, int wr, int wp)
>   	if (!set_watchpoint(pid, wp_size, wp))
>   		return false;
>   
> -	if (ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL) < 0) {
> +	if (ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, NULL, NULL) < 0) {
>   		ksft_print_msg(
>   			"ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP) failed: %s\n",
>   			strerror(errno));

Right before this it does a set_watchpoint(). PTRACE_CONT is what
makes sense to me. Error might be the one that is incorrect here?

thanks,
-- Shuah