Bug 230423 - ptrace causing SIGSEGV in debugged process when sending SIGKILL to it.
Summary: ptrace causing SIGSEGV in debugged process when sending SIGKILL to it.
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version: 6
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Roland McGrath
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-28 19:37 UTC by Kevin Van Brunt
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-03-20 17:27:07 UTC
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A test c program that demonstrates the bug. (1.02 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-28 19:41 UTC, Kevin Van Brunt 		no flags Details
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Description Kevin Van Brunt 2007-02-28 19:37:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have written a small program to demonstrate this bug.  It causes ptrace to trace /bin/ls.  After the first waitpid, the parent sends a SIGKILL to ls and ls performs a segmentation fault.  /bin/ls is only used as an example.  Any traced process has the same problem.  I have traced xterm, firefox, and gnome-cd as well and seen the bug.

The code will be attached to this bug report.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile and run the attached code.

Actual Results:
The message "GOT SIGSEGV" should appear because the traced program performs a segmentation fault.

Expected Results:
The traced program should not perform a segmentation fault and no message should appear.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Kevin Van Brunt 2007-02-28 19:41:19 UTC 
Created attachment 148952 [details]
A test c program that demonstrates the bug.
Comment 2 Albert Cahalan 2007-03-07 04:31:25 UTC 
A pure 2.6.20.1 kernel does not show the problem at all. I even tried adding
sched_yield in various places to see if scheduling order would affect things.

This is probably a utrace bug.
Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2007-03-19 23:03:55 UTC 
I reproduced this on 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 but not on 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6.
Please try the latest fc6 update kernel and verify that the problem is gone for you.
Comment 4 Kevin Van Brunt 2007-03-20 17:20:41 UTC 
It looks to be fixed in 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6.
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