From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm 1/2] ptrace_stop: fix the race with ptrace detach+attach
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:14:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122161459.GA5973@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
If the tracer went away (may_ptrace_stop() failed), ptrace_stop() drops tasklist
and then changes the ->state from TASK_TRACED to TASK_RUNNING.
This can fool another tracer which attaches to us in between. Change the ->state
under tasklist_lock to ensure that ptrace_check_attach() can't wrongly succeed.
Also, remove the unnecessary mb().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
--- PT/kernel/signal.c~1_ptrace_stop 2007-11-21 21:41:02.000000000 +0300
+++ PT/kernel/signal.c 2007-11-22 16:59:35.000000000 +0300
@@ -1628,11 +1628,11 @@ static void ptrace_stop(int exit_code, i
} else {
/*
* By the time we got the lock, our tracer went away.
- * Don't stop here.
+ * Don't drop the lock yet, another tracer may come.
*/
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
current->exit_code = nostop_code;
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
}
/*
next reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 16:14 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2007-11-23 10:23 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-11-23 10:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-12-11 1:36 ` Roland McGrath
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