From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm 1/2] ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:54:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090213105437.GA24320@redhat.com> (raw)
Another ancient bug. Consider this trivial test-case,
int main(void)
{
int pid = fork();
if (pid) {
ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL);
wait(NULL);
ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, NULL, NULL);
} else {
pause();
printf("WE HAVE A KERNEL BUG!!!\n");
}
return 0;
}
the child must not "escape" for sys_pause(), but it can and this was seen
in practice.
This is because ptrace_detach does:
if (!child->exit_state)
wake_up_process(child);
this wakeup can happen after this child has already restarted sys_pause(),
because it gets another wakeup from ptrace_untrace().
With or without this patch, perhaps sys_pause() needs a fix. But this
wakeup also breaks the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED logic in ptrace_untrace().
Remove this wakeup. The caller saw this task in TASK_TRACED state, and
unless it was SIGKILL'ed in between __ptrace_unlink()->ptrace_untrace()
should handle this case correctly. If it was SIGKILL'ed, we don't need
to wakup the dying tracee too.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
--- 6.29-rc3/kernel/ptrace.c~1_KILL_WAKE 2009-02-13 11:06:04.000000000 +0100
+++ 6.29-rc3/kernel/ptrace.c 2009-02-13 11:06:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -301,11 +301,7 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *ch
*/
if (child->ptrace) {
child->exit_code = data;
-
dead = __ptrace_detach(current, child);
-
- if (!child->exit_state)
- wake_up_process(child);
}
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
next reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 10:57 UTC|newest]
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2009-02-13 10:54 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-02-20 3:47 ` [PATCH -mm 1/2] ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic Roland McGrath
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