I am trying to code a program that tracks itself for system calls. It's hard for me to do this job. I tried calling fork () to instantiate myself (code), and then track the resulting child process.
The goal is for the parent process to return the index of each system call made by the child process and display it. Somehow it does not work as planned.
Here is the code:
#include <unistd.h> /* for read(), write(), close(), fork() */
#include <fcntl.h> /* for open() */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/reg.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
pid_t child;
long orig_eax;
child = fork();
if (0 == child)
{
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: copy <filefrom> <fileto>\n");
return 1;
}
int c;
size_t file1_fd, file2_fd;
if ((file1_fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "copy: can't open %s\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
}
if ((file2_fd = open(argv[2], O_WRONLY | O_CREAT)) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "copy: can't open %s\n", argv[2]);
return 1;
}
while (read(file1_fd, &c, 1) > 0)
write(file2_fd, &c, 1);
}
else
{
wait(NULL);
orig_eax = ptrace (PTRACE_PEEKUSER, child, 4 * ORIG_EAX, NULL);
printf("copy made a system call %ld\n", orig_eax);
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, child, NULL, NULL);
}
return 0;
}
This code was based on this code:
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/user.h> /* For constants
ORIG_EAX etc */
int main()
{
pid_t child;
long orig_eax;
child = fork();
if(child == 0) {
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
execl("/bin/ls", "ls", NULL);
}
else {
wait(NULL);
orig_eax = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER,
child, 4 * ORIG_EAX,
NULL);
printf("The child made a "
"system call %ld\n", orig_eax);
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, child, NULL, NULL);
}
return 0;
}
The result of this:
The child made a system call 11
which is the index for the exec system call.
According to the man pages for wait ():
All of these system calls are used to wait for state changes in a child
of the calling process, and obtain information about the child whose
state has changed. A state change is considered to be: the child terminated;
the child was stopped by a signal; or the child was resumed by
a signal.
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