[Lldb-commits] [lldb] r220656 - Fix up TestRegisters for Linux ptracer lock-down.

[Todd Fiala]

Author: tfiala
Date: Sun Oct 26 17:25:33 2014
New Revision: 220656

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=220656&view=rev
Log:
Fix up TestRegisters for Linux ptracer lock-down.

All of these test fixups are prep work for when llgs is
running with llgs for local process debugging, where these
tests fail without the ptracer lock-down suppression.

Modified:
    lldb/trunk/test/functionalities/register/main.cpp

Modified: lldb/trunk/test/functionalities/register/main.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/test/functionalities/register/main.cpp?rev=220656&r1=220655&r2=220656&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lldb/trunk/test/functionalities/register/main.cpp (original)
+++ lldb/trunk/test/functionalities/register/main.cpp Sun Oct 26 17:25:33 2014
@@ -9,8 +9,25 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#if defined(__linux__)
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#endif
+
 int main (int argc, char const *argv[])
 {
+#if defined(__linux__)
+    // Immediately enable any ptracer so that we can allow the stub attach
+    // operation to succeed.  Some Linux kernels are locked down so that
+    // only an ancestor process can be a ptracer of a process.  This disables that
+    // restriction.  Without it, attach-related stub tests will fail.
+#if defined(PR_SET_PTRACER) && defined(PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY)
+    // For now we execute on best effort basis.  If this fails for
+    // some reason, so be it.
+    const int prctl_result = prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, 0, 0, 0);
+    static_cast<void> (prctl_result);
+#endif
+#endif
+
     char my_string[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 0};
     double my_double = 1234.5678;