From bf26c018490c2fce7fe9b629083b96ce0e6ad019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:53:20 +0200 Subject: ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed and thus its breakpoints released. This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing a freed pointer. Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Prasad Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: v2.6.33.. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index f5d2f63bae0..8dd87418154 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) /* * FIXME: do that only when needed, using sched_exit tracepoint */ - flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk); + ptrace_put_breakpoints(tsk); exit_notify(tsk, group_dead); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 0fc1eed28d2..dc7ab65f3b3 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include /* @@ -879,3 +880,19 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ptrace(compat_long_t request, compat_long_t pid, return ret; } #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT +int ptrace_get_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&tsk->ptrace_bp_refcnt)) + return 0; + + return -1; +} + +void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->ptrace_bp_refcnt)) + flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk); +} +#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */ -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258