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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Acked-by: Prasad <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]> Cc: v2.6.33.. <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c index 55613e3..4edeeb3 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 -- 1.7.3.2 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
