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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 1/2] ptrace,syscall_user_dispatch: Implement Syscall User Dispatch Suspension
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:30 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/26, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 7:07 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > IIUC, PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH is needed to run the injected
> > > code, and this also needs to change the state of the traced process. If
> > > the tracer (CRIU) dies while the tracee runs this code, I guess the tracee
> > > will have other problems?
> >
> > Our injected code can reheal itself if something goes wrong. The hack
> > here is that we inject
> > the code with a signal frame and it calls rt_segreturn to resume the process.
>
> What will happen if CRIU dies and clears ->ptrace right before
> syscall_user_dispatch() checks PT_SUSPEND_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH ?
>
> How the tracee will react to SIGSYS with unexpected .si_syscall ?

I got it. PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SUD doesn't help us here, because we rely
on sigreturn
that is called after ptrace_detach. Thanks.

>
> > I don't expect that
> > the syscall user dispatch
> > is used by many applications,
>
> Agreed, so the case when CRIU will need to do the additional
> PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH_CONFIG twice to disable and then re-enable
> syscall_user_dispatch is unlikely.
>
> > so I don't strongly insist on
> > PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH.
>
> I too won't argue too much. but so far I do not feel there is enough
> justification for this feature ...

Agree

>
> Oleg.
>

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