From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, for 2.6.29] ptrace: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:33:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211093354.GD14265@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090209010233.GA26444@redhat.com>
* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was
> added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit
> bf53de907dfdaac178c92d774aae7370d7b97d20
>
> I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly
> believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program
>
> int main(void)
> {
> int pid = fork();
>
> if (!pid) {
> ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
> kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
> fork();
> } else {
> struct ptrace_bts_config bts = {
> .flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC,
> .size = 4 * 4096,
> };
>
> wait(NULL);
>
> ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
> ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts));
> ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL);
>
> sleep(1);
> }
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> should crash the kernel.
>
> If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0
> but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway.
>
> This is a minimal fix for 2.6.29, we need further cleanups imho.
I've applied this fix to tip:x86/urgent for now, until the other fix
from Markus gets finalized.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 1:02 [PATCH, for 2.6.29] ptrace: fix the usage of ptrace_fork() Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-09 1:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-09 1:54 ` Roland McGrath
2009-02-09 9:28 ` Metzger, Markus T
2009-02-09 19:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-10 9:47 ` Metzger, Markus T
2009-02-10 18:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-10 20:21 ` Markus Metzger
2009-02-10 21:00 ` Markus Metzger
2009-02-10 21:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-11 7:03 ` Markus Metzger
2009-02-10 20:08 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-11 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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