Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/proc: do_task_stat: Fix ESP not readable during coredump

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 12/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/06, Nam Cao wrote:
> >
> > @@ -534,6 +517,23 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> >  		ppid = task_tgid_nr_ns(task->real_parent, ns);
> >  		pgid = task_pgrp_nr_ns(task, ns);
> >
> > +		/*
> > +		 * esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out.  There is no
> > +		 * non-racy way to read them without freezing the task.
> > +		 * Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2).
>
> OK,
>
> but then:
>
> > +		 * The only exception is if the task is core dumping because
> > +		 * a program is not able to use ptrace(2) in that case. It is
> > +		 * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (permitted && task->signal->core_state) {
> > +			if (try_get_task_stack(task)) {
> > +				eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
> > +				esp = KSTK_ESP(task);
> > +				put_task_stack(task);
>
> How can the task->signal->core_state check help ?
>
> Suppose we have a task T1 with T1-pid == 100 and you read /proc/100/stat.
> It is possible that the T1's sub-thread T2 starts the coredumping and sets
> signal->core_state != NULL.
>
> But read(/proc/100/stat) can run before T1 gets SIGKILL from T2 and enters
> the kernel mode?

Can't the trivial patch below fix the problem?

Oleg.


--- xfs/proc/array.c
+++ x/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
 		 * a program is not able to use ptrace(2) in that case. It is
 		 * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently.
 		 */
-		if (permitted && (task->flags & (PF_EXITING|PF_DUMPCORE))) {
+		if (permitted && (task->flags & (PF_EXITING|PF_DUMPCORE|PF_POSTCOREDUMP))) {
 			if (try_get_task_stack(task)) {
 				eip = KSTK_EIP(task);
 				esp = KSTK_ESP(task);