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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-04-08 17:29:36 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-04-25 17:33:54 +0200
commit07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d (patch)
tree2200131ce41d391b0733fdd5c4c8abeaddceca78 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4 (diff)
powerpc, 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: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 55613e33e263..4edeeb325429 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,10 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
}
case PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG:
+ if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(child) < 0)
+ return -ESRCH;
ret = ptrace_set_debugreg(child, addr, data);
+ ptrace_put_breakpoints(child);
break;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64