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    ptrace: don't modify flags on PTRACE_SETOPTIONS failure · 8c5cf9e5
    Denys Vlasenko authored
    On ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, <opts>), we used to set those
    option bits which are known, and then fail with -EINVAL if there are
    some unknown bits in <opts>.
    
    This is inconsistent with typical error handling, which does not change
    any state if input is invalid.
    
    This patch changes PTRACE_SETOPTIONS behavior so that in this case, we
    return -EINVAL and don't change any bits in task->ptrace.
    
    It's very unlikely that there is userspace code in the wild which will
    be affected by this change: it should have the form
    
        ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPT)
    
    where PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPT is a constant unknown to the kernel.  But kernel
    headers, naturally, don't contain any PTRACE_O_BOGUSOPTs, thus the only
    way userspace can use one if it defines one itself.  I can't see why
    anyone would do such a thing deliberately.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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