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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ptrace PTRACE_READDATA/WRITEDATA, kernel 2.5.62
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:05:14PM +0100, fcorneli@elis.rug.ac.be wrote:

>+ ret = 0;
>+ res = ptrace_readdata(child, addr, (void *)addr2, data);
>+ if (res == data)
>+ break;
>
>
You mention sparc - have you tested if that works on sparc?
ptrace_readdata assumes that addr2 is a pointer to kernel space, not
user space. It works by chance on i386, but that's not acceptable for
merging.
You must double buffer, check mem_read in fs/proc/base.c

Daniel wrote:

>Thirdly, I was going to do this, but I ended up making GDB use pread64
>on /dev/mem instead. It works with no kernel modifications, and is
>just as fast.
>
>
I assume you mean /proc/<pid>/mem. Performance is identical, same
implementation.

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Manfred

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