From 9f339e7028e2855717af3193c938f9960ad13b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Metzger Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:10:27 +0100 Subject: x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- mm/mlock.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mlock.c') diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index 028ec482fdd4..2b57f7e60390 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size) return buffer; } -void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) +void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) { unsigned long pgsz = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT; @@ -667,6 +667,11 @@ void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) current->mm->locked_vm -= pgsz; up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); +} + +void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size) +{ + release_locked_buffer(buffer, size); kfree(buffer); } -- cgit v1.2.3