Re: ptrace crash on PREEMPT 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 kernel

2010-03-01 Thread Régis Odeyé
Hi, We experiment the same issue. It is related to this fix: linux-2.6-misc-ptrace-fix-exec-report.patch and the related bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455060 We patched the ptrace.c with this: ***

ptrace crash on PREEMPT 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 kernel

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Fink
I'm not sure if this is the place for this, but: I have an x86_64 machine that gets an immediate SIGSEGV when ptracing anything: [r...@dl360g6gs1 kernel-2.6.18]# strace true execve(/bin/true, [true], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ I

Re: ptrace crash on PREEMPT 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 kernel

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote: If you are using actual RHEL5, you can go through your normal support channels for help on that.  I don't know off hand of anybody who wants to help you with support for using RHEL5 kernel source built with a set of

Re: ptrace crash on PREEMPT 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 kernel

2010-02-26 Thread Roland McGrath
But I'm happy to have tracked it down to the utrace-based ptrace emulation, and was mostly just interested in knowing if preempt and utrace are fundamentally incompatible on x86_64, or something like that. I'll fight through the 2.6.18-164 issues instead, since the ptrace problem doesn't seem