[PATCH 3.4 050/146] ptrace: fix race between ptrace_resume() and wait_task_stopped()

lizf
2015-09-15T09:46:45Z

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

3.4.109-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit b72c186999e689cb0b055ab1c7b3cd8fffbeb5ed upstream.

ptrace_resume() is called when the tracee is still __TASK_TRACED. We set
tracee->exit_code and then wake_up_state() changes tracee->state. If the
tracer's sub-thread does wait() in between, task_stopped_code(ptrace => T)
wrongly looks like another report from tracee.

This confuses debugger, and since wait_task_stopped() clears ->exit_code
the tracee can miss a signal.

Test-case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <assert.h>

int pid;

void *waiter(void *arg)
{
int stat;

for (;;) {
assert(pid == wait(&stat));
assert(WIFSTOPPED(stat));
if (WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGHUP)
continue;

assert(WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGCONT);
printf("ERR! extra/wrong report:%x\n", stat);
}
}

int main(void)
{
pthread_t thread;

pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
for (;;)
kill(getpid(), SIGHUP);
}

assert(pthread_create(&thread, NULL, waiter, NULL) == 0);

for (;;)
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, SIGCONT);

return 0;
}

Note for stable: the bug is very old, but without 9899d11f6544 "ptrace:
ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL" the fix
should use lock_task_sighand(child).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com>
Tested-by: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
kernel/ptrace.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index a143236..d9e71e3 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -632,6 +632,8 @@ static int ptrace_setsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, const siginfo_t *info)
static int ptrace_resume(struct task_struct *child, long request,
unsigned long data)
{
+ bool need_siglock;
+
if (!valid_signal(data))
return -EIO;

@@ -659,8 +661,26 @@ static int ptrace_resume(struct task_struct *child, long request,
user_disable_single_step(child);
}

+ /*
+ * Change ->exit_code and ->state under siglock to avoid the race
+ * with wait_task_stopped() in between; a non-zero ->exit_code will
+ * wrongly look like another report from tracee.
+ *
+ * Note that we need siglock even if ->exit_code == data and/or this
+ * status was not reported yet, the new status must not be cleared by
+ * wait_task_stopped() after resume.
+ *
+ * If data == 0 we do not care if wait_task_stopped() reports the old
+ * status and clears the code too; this can't race with the tracee, it
+ * takes siglock after resume.
+ */
+ need_siglock = data && !thread_group_empty(current);
+ if (need_siglock)
+ spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
child->exit_code = data;
wake_up_state(child, __TASK_TRACED);
+ if (need_siglock)
+ spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);

return 0;
}
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1.9.1