Re: [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Mar 18 2022 - 15:43:55 EST


On 03/17, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > OK, I like it... but can't we remove the ugly "int clear_code" arg?
>
> The flag clear_code controls what happens if a ptrace_stop does not
> stop. In particular clear_code means do not continue with
> a signal if we can not stop.
>
> For do_jobctl_trap calling ptrace_stop it clearly does not matter.
>
> For ptrace_signal it would be a change in behavior, that would
> cause the signal not to be delivered.

Well I meant that "clear_code" should be false, iirc only
ptrace_report_syscall() should be updated to void the spurious
send_sig() if debugger exits... Nevermind, pleasee forget, this is
not as trivial as I thought.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>