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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-06-14 11:20:15 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2011-06-16 21:41:53 +0200
commit3544d72a0e10d0aa1c1bd59ed77a53a59cdc12f7 (patch)
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parent73ddff2bee159ffb580bd24faf625cd5e628f5ec (diff)
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ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE
PTRACE_ATTACH implicitly issues SIGSTOP on attach which has side effects on tracee signal and job control states. This patch implements a new ptrace request PTRACE_SEIZE which attaches a tracee without trapping it or affecting its signal and job control states. The usage is the same with PTRACE_ATTACH but it takes PTRACE_SEIZE_* flags in @data. Currently, the only defined flag is PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL which is a temporary flag to enable PTRACE_SEIZE. PTRACE_SEIZE will change ptrace behaviors outside of attach itself. The changes will be implemented gradually and the DEVEL flag is to prevent programs which expect full SEIZE behavior from using it before all the behavior modifications are complete while allowing unit testing. The flag will be removed once SEIZE behaviors are completely implemented. * PTRACE_SEIZE, unlike ATTACH, doesn't force tracee to trap. After attaching tracee continues to run unless a trap condition occurs. * PTRACE_SEIZE doesn't affect signal or group stop state. * If PTRACE_SEIZE'd, group stop uses PTRACE_EVENT_STOP trap which uses exit_code of (signr | PTRACE_EVENT_STOP << 8) where signr is one of the stopping signals if group stop is in effect or SIGTRAP otherwise, and returns usual trap siginfo on PTRACE_GETSIGINFO instead of NULL. Seizing sets PT_SEIZED in ->ptrace of the tracee. This flag will be used to determine whether new SEIZE behaviors should be enabled. Test program follows. #define PTRACE_SEIZE 0x4206 #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL 0x80000000 static const struct timespec ts100ms = { .tv_nsec = 100000000 }; static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 }; static const struct timespec ts3s = { .tv_sec = 3 }; int main(int argc, char **argv) { pid_t tracee; tracee = fork(); if (tracee == 0) { nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL); while (1) { printf("tracee: alive\n"); nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); } } if (argc > 1) kill(tracee, SIGSTOP); nanosleep(&ts100ms, NULL); ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL, (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL); if (argc > 1) { waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL); } nanosleep(&ts3s, NULL); printf("tracer: exiting\n"); return 0; } When the above program is called w/o argument, tracee is seized while running and remains running. When tracer exits, tracee continues to run and print out messages. # ./test-seize-simple tracee: alive tracee: alive tracee: alive tracer: exiting tracee: alive tracee: alive When called with an argument, tracee is seized from stopped state and continued, and returns to stopped state when tracer exits. # ./test-seize tracee: alive tracee: alive tracee: alive tracer: exiting # ps -el|grep test-seize 1 T 0 4720 1 0 80 0 - 941 signal ttyS0 00:00:00 test-seize -v2: SEIZE doesn't schedule TRAP_STOP and leaves tracee running as Jan suggested. -v3: PTRACE_EVENT_STOP traps now report group stop state by signr. If group stop is in effect the stop signal number is returned as part of exit_code; otherwise, SIGTRAP. This was suggested by Denys and Oleg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index e93ef1a54fc7..67ad3f152329 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
#define PTRACE_GETREGSET 0x4204
#define PTRACE_SETREGSET 0x4205
+#define PTRACE_SEIZE 0x4206
+
+/* flags in @data for PTRACE_SEIZE */
+#define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL 0x80000000 /* temp flag for development */
+
/* options set using PTRACE_SETOPTIONS */
#define PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD 0x00000001
#define PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK 0x00000002
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@
#define PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC 4
#define PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE 5
#define PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT 6
+#define PTRACE_EVENT_STOP 7
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
@@ -77,6 +83,7 @@
* flags. When the a task is stopped the ptracer owns task->ptrace.
*/
+#define PT_SEIZED 0x00010000 /* SEIZE used, enable new behavior */
#define PT_PTRACED 0x00000001
#define PT_DTRACE 0x00000002 /* delayed trace (used on m68k, i386) */
#define PT_TRACESYSGOOD 0x00000004