From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nmNgj-00D6b4-91 for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 22:41:43 +0000 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 17:40:54 -0500 Message-Id: <20220504224058.476193-7-ebiederm@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87k0b0apne.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> References: <87k0b0apne.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [PATCH v3 07/11] ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, Oleg Nesterov , mingo@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mgorman@suse.de, bigeasy@linutronix.de, Will Deacon , tj@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Kees Cook , Jann Horn , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro The current implementation of PTRACE_KILL is buggy and has been for many years as it assumes it's target has stopped in ptrace_stop. At a quick skim it looks like this assumption has existed since ptrace support was added in linux v1.0. While PTRACE_KILL has been deprecated we can not remove it as a quick search with google code search reveals many existing programs calling it. When the ptracee is not stopped at ptrace_stop some fields would be set that are ignored except in ptrace_stop. Making the userspace visible behavior of PTRACE_KILL a noop in those case. As the usual rules are not obeyed it is not clear what the consequences are of calling PTRACE_KILL on a running process. Presumably userspace does not do this as it achieves nothing. Replace the implementation of PTRACE_KILL with a simple send_sig_info(SIGKILL) followed by a return 0. This changes the observable user space behavior only in that PTRACE_KILL on a process not stopped in ptrace_stop will also kill it. As that has always been the intent of the code this seems like a reasonable change. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Al Viro Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/x86/kernel/step.c | 3 +-- kernel/ptrace.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c index 0f3c307b37b3..8e2b2552b5ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ void set_task_blockstep(struct task_struct *task, bool on) * * NOTE: this means that set/clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP is only safe if * task is current or it can't be running, otherwise we can race - * with __switch_to_xtra(). We rely on ptrace_freeze_traced() but - * PTRACE_KILL is not safe. + * with __switch_to_xtra(). We rely on ptrace_freeze_traced(). */ local_irq_disable(); debugctl = get_debugctlmsr(); diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index da30dcd477a0..7105821595bc 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1236,9 +1236,8 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request, return ptrace_resume(child, request, data); case PTRACE_KILL: - if (child->exit_state) /* already dead */ - return 0; - return ptrace_resume(child, request, SIGKILL); + send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_NOINFO, child); + return 0; #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK case PTRACE_GETREGSET: -- 2.35.3 _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um