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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2011-04-08 17:29:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2011-04-25 17:33:54 +0200 |
| commit | 07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d (patch) | |
| tree | 2200131ce41d391b0733fdd5c4c8abeaddceca78 /arch/powerpc/kernel | |
| parent | 87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4 (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.c | 3 |
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 |