linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] sh, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

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Date:	Tue,  3 May 2011 15:25:24 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] sh, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

While the tracer accesses ptrace breakpoints, the child task may
concurrently exit due to a SIGKILL and thus release its breakpoints
at the same time. We can then dereference some freed pointers.

To fix this, hold a reference on the child breakpoints before
manipulating them.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
---
 arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c b/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c
index 2130ca6..3d7b209 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c
@@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ void user_enable_single_step(struct task_struct *child)
 
 	set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
 
+	if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(child) < 0)
+		return;
+
 	set_single_step(child, pc);
+	ptrace_put_breakpoints(child);
 }
 
 void user_disable_single_step(struct task_struct *child)
-- 
1.7.3.2

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