Commit e0ac8457 authored Apr 08, 2011 by Frederic Weisbecker

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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com

parent bf0b8f4b

arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_32.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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)