Patch "ptrace: fix PTRACE_LISTEN race corrupting task->state" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ptrace: fix PTRACE_LISTEN race corrupting task->state

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ptrace-fix-ptrace_listen-race-corrupting-task-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5402e97af667e35e54177af8f6575518bf251d51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "bsegall@google.com" <bsegall@google.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:04:51 -0700
Subject: ptrace: fix PTRACE_LISTEN race corrupting task->state

From: bsegall@google.com <bsegall@google.com>

commit 5402e97af667e35e54177af8f6575518bf251d51 upstream.

In PT_SEIZED + LISTEN mode STOP/CONT signals cause a wakeup against
__TASK_TRACED.  If this races with the ptrace_unfreeze_traced at the end
of a PTRACE_LISTEN, this can wake the task /after/ the check against
__TASK_TRACED, but before the reset of state to TASK_TRACED.  This
causes it to instead clobber TASK_WAKING, allowing a subsequent wakeup
against TRACED while the task is still on the rq wake_list, corrupting
it.

Oleg said:
 "The kernel can crash or this can lead to other hard-to-debug problems.
  In short, "task->state = TASK_TRACED" in ptrace_unfreeze_traced()
  assumes that nobody else can wake it up, but PTRACE_LISTEN breaks the
  contract. Obviusly it is very wrong to manipulate task->state if this
  task is already running, or WAKING, or it sleeps again"

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 9899d11f ("ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26y3vfhmkp.fsf_-_@bsegall-linux.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/ptrace.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -144,11 +144,17 @@ static void ptrace_unfreeze_traced(struc
 
 	WARN_ON(!task->ptrace || task->parent != current);
 
+	/*
+	 * PTRACE_LISTEN can allow ptrace_trap_notify to wake us up remotely.
+	 * Recheck state under the lock to close this race.
+	 */
 	spin_lock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
-	if (__fatal_signal_pending(task))
-		wake_up_state(task, __TASK_TRACED);
-	else
-		task->state = TASK_TRACED;
+	if (task->state == __TASK_TRACED) {
+		if (__fatal_signal_pending(task))
+			wake_up_state(task, __TASK_TRACED);
+		else
+			task->state = TASK_TRACED;
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bsegall@google.com are

queue-3.18/ptrace-fix-ptrace_listen-race-corrupting-task-state.patch