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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2015-04-16 12:47:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-17 09:04:06 -0400
commit64a4096c5cdab377b6e1f44008ee8b2636db579d (patch)
tree5cb701ad9bd68e19f6da29b29c086215b0292b67 /kernel/ptrace.c
parentb72c186999e689cb0b055ab1c7b3cd8fffbeb5ed (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-64a4096c5cdab377b6e1f44008ee8b2636db579d.tar.gz
ptrace: ptrace_detach() can no longer race with SIGKILL
ptrace_detach() re-checks ->ptrace under tasklist lock and calls release_task() if __ptrace_detach() returns true. This was needed because the __TASK_TRACED tracee could be killed/untraced, and it could even pass exit_notify() before we take tasklist_lock. But this is no longer possible after 9899d11f6544 "ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL". We can turn these checks into WARN_ON() and remove release_task(). While at it, document the setting of child->exit_code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9a34bd80a745..c8e0e050a36a 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -456,8 +456,6 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p)
static int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
{
- bool dead = false;
-
if (!valid_signal(data))
return -EIO;
@@ -467,18 +465,19 @@ static int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
/*
- * This child can be already killed. Make sure de_thread() or
- * our sub-thread doing do_wait() didn't do release_task() yet.
+ * We rely on ptrace_freeze_traced(). It can't be killed and
+ * untraced by another thread, it can't be a zombie.
*/
- if (child->ptrace) {
- child->exit_code = data;
- dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child);
- }
+ WARN_ON(!child->ptrace || child->exit_state);
+ /*
+ * tasklist_lock avoids the race with wait_task_stopped(), see
+ * the comment in ptrace_resume().
+ */
+ child->exit_code = data;
+ __ptrace_detach(current, child);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
proc_ptrace_connector(child, PTRACE_DETACH);
- if (unlikely(dead))
- release_task(child);
return 0;
}