From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:29:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc7~8^2~4^2~2
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07fa7a0a8a58;p=linux.git

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
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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