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Today ptrace_message is easy to overlook as it not a core part of ptrace_stop. It has been overlooked so much that there are places that set ptrace_message and don't clear it, and places that never set it. So if you get an unlucky sequence of events the ptracer may be able to read a ptrace_message that does not apply to the current ptrace stop. Move setting of ptrace_message into ptrace_stop so that it always gets set before the stop, and always gets cleared after the stop. This prevents non-sense from being reported to userspace and makes ptrace_message more visible in the ptrace helper functions so that kernel developers can see it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bky67qfv.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.