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Message-ID: <20110721183446.GA3643@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:34:46 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] (Was: connector: add an event for monitoring process
	tracers)

On 07/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> proc_fork_connector() reads task->real_parent lockless. In theory
> this is not safe with CLONE_PTHREAD or CLONE_PARENT. Yes, this is
> only theoretical, but afaics we need something like
>
> 	--- x/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c
> 	+++ x/drivers/connector/cn_proc.c
> 	@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ void proc_fork_connector(struct task_str
> 		struct proc_event *ev;
> 		__u8 buffer[CN_PROC_MSG_SIZE];
> 		struct timespec ts;
> 	+	struct task_struct *parent;
> 	 
> 		if (atomic_read(&proc_event_num_listeners) < 1)
> 			return;
> 	@@ -65,8 +66,11 @@ void proc_fork_connector(struct task_str
> 		ktime_get_ts(&ts); /* get high res monotonic timestamp */
> 		put_unaligned(timespec_to_ns(&ts), (__u64 *)&ev->timestamp_ns);
> 		ev->what = PROC_EVENT_FORK;
> 	-	ev->event_data.fork.parent_pid = task->real_parent->pid;
> 	-	ev->event_data.fork.parent_tgid = task->real_parent->tgid;
> 	+	rcu_read_lock();
> 	+	parent = rcu_dereference(task->real_parent);
> 	+	ev->event_data.fork.parent_pid = parent->pid;
> 	+	ev->event_data.fork.parent_tgid = parent->tgid;
> 	+	rcu_read_unlock();
> 		ev->event_data.fork.child_pid = task->pid;
> 		ev->event_data.fork.child_tgid = task->tgid;
>
> Otherwise ->real_parent can point to the freed/reused and may be
> unmapped memory.

Looks like, nobody cares ;) I am sending the patch.

> But the actual question is, the usage of proc_exec_connector()
> looks "obviously wrong", no? Don't we need
>
> 	--- x/fs/exec.c
> 	+++ x/fs/exec.c
> 	@@ -1380,15 +1380,16 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> 				 */
> 				bprm->recursion_depth = depth;
> 				if (retval >= 0) {
> 	-				if (depth == 0)
> 	+				if (depth == 0) {
> 						tracehook_report_exec(fmt, bprm, regs);
> 	+					proc_exec_connector(current);
> 	+				}
> 					put_binfmt(fmt);
> 					allow_write_access(bprm->file);
> 					if (bprm->file)
> 						fput(bprm->file);
> 					bprm->file = NULL;
> 					current->did_exec = 1;
> 	-				proc_exec_connector(current);
> 					return retval;
> 				}
> 				read_lock(&binfmt_lock);
>
>
> ? Or do we really want to call proc_exec_connector() twice or
> more in "#!whatever" case?

I think this should be fixed too, I'll send the patch later.

Oleg.

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