From 07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 17:29:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Prasad Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: v2.6.33.. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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