* ptrace & /proc deadlock due to mm_for_maps cred_guard_mutex patch
@ 2009-09-02 23:28 Tom Horsley
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From: Tom Horsley @ 2009-09-02 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
The redhat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520206#c2
describes a test program that demonstrates an apparent
deadlock ptrace can get into as a result of the
patch:
commit 704b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Jul 10 03:27:40 2009 +0200
mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
ptrace hangs attempting to read the newly exec'ed debugged
child process /proc/pid/maps file, and the child is obviously
never going to advance as long as it is stopped by ptrace.
I haven't seen any activity on the bugzilla, so since this
was a kernel.org patch I figured I'd mention it over here.
As the bugzilla says, it is possible to work around this by
single stepping the debugged process before reading the maps
file.
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