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| author | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-07-05 07:53:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-07-05 07:53:40 +0000 |
| commit | 40bbb77d4dfebff4f99c2f90b2c0db737b0ecc5a (patch) | |
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add deepseek classification results: classifies into user and system mode
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diff --git a/results/classifier/mode-deepseek-r1:32b/reasoning/user/929 b/results/classifier/mode-deepseek-r1:32b/reasoning/user/929 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b5fb4f29 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/mode-deepseek-r1:32b/reasoning/user/929 @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<think> +Okay, so I need to figure out whether this QEMU bug is a user-mode issue or a system-mode issue. Let's start by understanding the problem. + +The user is reporting that when they run their clone.c program under QEMU, it fails with an error of -1 from the clone syscall. But when they run the same executable natively, it works fine. They've tested this across different compilers (gcc, zig cc, clang) and even tried cross-compiling to riscv64, but the issue persists only in QEMU. + +Looking at the code, the program uses the clone system call directly with syscall(SYS_clone, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0). The clone function is used for creating a new process, which should return the child's PID to the parent and 0 to the child. If it fails, it returns -1. + +In QEMU, this is failing, but not outside of it. That suggests something about how QEMU handles system calls or processes might be different. + +QEMU has two main modes: user mode emulation and system mode emulation. In user mode (like qemu-x86_64), it runs unprivileged applications without a full OS. It translates system calls from the emulated architecture to the host's system calls. In system mode, it emulates an entire system with hardware devices, etc. + +In this case, the problem occurs when running under qemu-x86_64, which is user-mode emulation. So QEMU is trying to handle the clone syscall in some way. If the clone syscall isn't properly handled by QEMU's user-mode code, it could return an error like -1 even though the native system handles it correctly. + +The referenced bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1926996) seems to be about clone failing in user mode. So this is likely a known issue related to how QEMU's user-mode emulation handles certain syscalls, specifically clone in this case. + +Since the issue occurs in user-mode and relates to handling a system call that creates a new process, it's a problem with how QEMU translates or executes these syscalls in the user space environment. Therefore, this is a 'user' mode related bug. +</think> + +The bug is classified as a 'user' mode issue because it pertains to how QEMU handles system calls within its user-mode emulation. + +user \ No newline at end of file |
