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Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)

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On 06/01, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
>
> Note, that this will work only if application has changed it's CS.

So, suppose it changes it's CS and crashes,

> If the application does 32-bit syscall with __USER_CS, ptrace
> @@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ void update_regset_xstate_info(unsigned int size, u64 xstate_mask)
>  const struct user_regset_view *task_user_regset_view(struct task_struct *task)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> -	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IA32))
> +	if (!user_64bit_mode(task_pt_regs(task)))
>  #endif

then coredump will do fill_elf_header(view->e_machine) and use EM_X86_64
instead of EM_386, or vice versa...

I simply can't understand is this better or worse, I guess gdb or any
other tool which looks at this coredump will be confused anyway.

Oleg.

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[PATCH 0/6] x86: 32-bit compatible C/R on x86_64 Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-07 00:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-06-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-09 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-10 22:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86/ptrace: down with test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-10 22:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/6] x86/vdso: unmap vdso blob on vvar mapping failure Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3/6] x86/arch_prctl/vdso: add ARCH_MAP_VDSO_* Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200

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