Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO: add support for seccomp syscall skipping

Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:04:06 +0200 Renzo Davoli <[email protected]> wrote:

> PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO is a generic ptrace API that complements
> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO by allowing a tracer to modify details of a
> system call in which the tracee is currently blocked.
> 
> The API is designed to let tracers inspect and modify system call
> information in a simple, architecture-agnostic manner.
> 
> The current implementation only supports modifying the subset of
> system call information needed by strace: the system call number,
> arguments, and return value.
> 
> This patch set extends PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO with support for
> skipping a system call.

Thanks, looks good.

We're at -rc7 so I'll set this aside for consideration after 7.3-rc1.
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