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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-02-15 20:50:10 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-15 20:05:43 +0100
commit5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87 (patch)
treeeabd0a145af64e26c900578c95175ab313828661
parent[PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race (diff)
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[PATCH] fix zap_thread's ptrace related problems
1. The tracee can go from ptrace_stop() to do_signal_stop() after __ptrace_unlink(p). 2. It is unsafe to __ptrace_unlink(p) while p->parent may wait for tasklist_lock in ptrace_detach(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c25
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 055378d2513e..0e1c95074d42 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static void zap_threads (struct mm_struct *mm)
do_each_thread(g,p) {
if (mm == p->mm && p != tsk &&
p->ptrace && p->parent->mm == mm) {
- __ptrace_unlink(p);
+ __ptrace_detach(p, 0);
}
} while_each_thread(g,p);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index 9d5cd106b344..0d36750fc0f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ extern int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __us
extern int ptrace_writedata(struct task_struct *tsk, char __user *src, unsigned long dst, int len);
extern int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *, unsigned int);
+extern void __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *, unsigned int);
extern void ptrace_disable(struct task_struct *);
extern int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *task, int kill);
extern int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data);
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index d2cf144d0af5..d95a72c9279d 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ void ptrace_untrace(task_t *child)
*/
void __ptrace_unlink(task_t *child)
{
- if (!child->ptrace)
- BUG();
+ BUG_ON(!child->ptrace);
+
child->ptrace = 0;
if (!list_empty(&child->ptrace_list)) {
list_del_init(&child->ptrace_list);
@@ -184,22 +184,27 @@ bad:
return retval;
}
+void __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
+{
+ child->exit_code = data;
+ /* .. re-parent .. */
+ __ptrace_unlink(child);
+ /* .. and wake it up. */
+ if (child->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
+ wake_up_process(child);
+}
+
int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
{
if (!valid_signal(data))
- return -EIO;
+ return -EIO;
/* Architecture-specific hardware disable .. */
ptrace_disable(child);
- /* .. re-parent .. */
- child->exit_code = data;
-
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- __ptrace_unlink(child);
- /* .. and wake it up. */
- if (child->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
- wake_up_process(child);
+ if (child->ptrace)
+ __ptrace_detach(child, data);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
return 0;