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From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] synccall patches
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 14:53:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUJYXOgQhXMznWzi@voyager> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231101130033.GR4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Am Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:00:33AM -0400 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On the other hand, the thing you're worried about, the original value
> of c.ret being passed to __syscall_ret, can't happen. If it was
> initially positive on entry to do_setxid, a syscall is made and the
> return value is stored into c.ret.
>

But if the tkill fails in __synccall, do_setxid() will never be called
at all (that's what line 87 in synccall.c does). So the original value
will remain.

Perhaps __synccall should return failure in that case, after doing
everything else. Then the logic could otherwise remain untouched, and
__setxid could respond appropriately to the failure itself.

Ciao,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-01 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-31 16:21 Markus Wichmann
2023-11-01 13:00 ` Rich Felker
2023-11-01 13:53   ` Markus Wichmann [this message]
2023-11-01 17:05     ` Rich Felker
2023-11-02 16:42       ` Markus Wichmann
2023-11-01 17:28   ` Alexey Izbyshev

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