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| author | Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> | 2007-03-10 00:19:49 -0800 | 
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2007-03-10 00:19:49 -0800 | 
| commit | c0a79b229ac0e3a96fc00d5be65a498ceb06ef63 (patch) | |
| tree | 5eda8f742f1480abf16952d6ba820be6a95d29b4 /arch/m32r/mm/fault.c | |
| parent | 63abdcdc021063bf1cfcddfd3c1a14a761539807 (diff) | |
[SPARC64]: Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread()
Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for sparc64
Fixes correctly the race by using *_ti_thread_flag.
Race :
parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
 (lock_kernel())
 (ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
 arch_ptrace()
   ptrace_detach()
     ptrace_disable(child);
       clear_singlestep(child);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
         (which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
          process)
 (put_task_struct(child))
 (unlock_kernel())
And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
 do_execve()
   search_binary_handler()
     load_elf_binary()
       flush_old_exec()
         flush_thread()
           doing a non-atomic thread flag update
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/m32r/mm/fault.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions
