Re: page->mapping == 0

From: Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 18:12:00 EST


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> Well the ptrace one still has mysteriously breaks usermode linux
> against it on my list here. Was that ever explained. It looked like
> the stack got corrupted which is weird.

If this is the test8 "turn off ORIG_EAX if EIP is changed" fix, it apparently
also broke a couple of other ptrace-intensive things which aren't coming to
mind (Andi Kleen noticed them).

AFAIK, it was never explained. Something would change its victim's EIP and
the victim would segfault as soon as it was continued.

                                Jeff

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