4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> commit 5402e97af667e35e54177af8f6575518bf251d51 upstream. In PT_SEIZED + LISTEN mode STOP/CONT signals cause a wakeup against __TASK_TRACED. If this races with the ptrace_unfreeze_traced at the end of a PTRACE_LISTEN, this can wake the task /after/ the check against __TASK_TRACED, but before the reset of state to TASK_TRACED. This causes it to instead clobber TASK_WAKING, allowing a subsequent wakeup against TRACED while the task is still on the rq wake_list, corrupting it. Oleg said: "The kernel can crash or this can lead to other hard-to-debug problems. In short, "task->state = TASK_TRACED" in ptrace_unfreeze_traced() assumes that nobody else can wake it up, but PTRACE_LISTEN breaks the contract. Obviusly it is very wrong to manipulate task->state if this task is already running, or WAKING, or it sleeps again" [[email protected]: coding-style fixes] Fixes: 9899d11f ("ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <[email protected]> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/ptrace.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -151,11 +151,17 @@ static void ptrace_unfreeze_traced(struc WARN_ON(!task->ptrace || task->parent != current); + /* + * PTRACE_LISTEN can allow ptrace_trap_notify to wake us up remotely. + * Recheck state under the lock to close this race. + */ spin_lock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock); - if (__fatal_signal_pending(task)) - wake_up_state(task, __TASK_TRACED); - else - task->state = TASK_TRACED; + if (task->state == __TASK_TRACED) { + if (__fatal_signal_pending(task)) + wake_up_state(task, __TASK_TRACED); + else + task->state = TASK_TRACED; + } spin_unlock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock); }
