From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ptrace: fix exit_ptrace() vs ptrace_traceme() race
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:52:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406165238.GA25710@redhat.com> (raw)
Pointed out by Roland. The bug was recently introduced by me in
"forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part", commit
39c626ae47c469abdfd30c6e42eff884931380d6.
Since that patch we have a window after exit_ptrace() drops tasklist
and before forget_original_parent() takes it again. In this window
the child can do ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) and nobody can untrace this
child after that.
Change ptrace_traceme() to not attach to the exiting ->real_parent.
We don't report the error in this case, we pretend we attach right
before ->real_parent calls exit_ptrace() which should untrace us
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
--- 6.30/kernel/ptrace.c~TRACEME 2009-04-06 00:03:42.000000000 +0200
+++ 6.30/kernel/ptrace.c 2009-04-06 18:25:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -606,10 +606,11 @@ repeat:
ret = security_ptrace_traceme(current->parent);
/*
- * Set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags.
- * Then link us on our parent's ptraced list.
+ * Check PF_EXITING to ensure ->real_parent has not passed
+ * exit_ptrace(). Otherwise we don't report the error but
+ * pretend ->real_parent untraces us right after return.
*/
- if (!ret) {
+ if (!ret && !(current->real_parent->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
__ptrace_link(current, current->real_parent);
}
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 16:57 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-06 16:52 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-04-06 19:35 ` [PATCH] ptrace: fix exit_ptrace() vs ptrace_traceme() race Roland McGrath
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