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authorMarkus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>2009-02-11 15:10:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-11 15:44:20 +0100
commit9f339e7028e2855717af3193c938f9960ad13b38 (patch)
tree76e0e9181f4ee2b324742d517518e837d5c250bf
parent06eb23b1ba39c61ee5d5faeb42a097635693e370 (diff)
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 <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c16
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c7
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0a5df5f82fb..5a4c23d8989 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -810,12 +810,16 @@ static void ptrace_bts_untrace(struct task_struct *child)
static void ptrace_bts_detach(struct task_struct *child)
{
- if (unlikely(child->bts)) {
- ds_release_bts(child->bts);
- child->bts = NULL;
-
- ptrace_bts_free_buffer(child);
- }
+ /*
+ * Ptrace_detach() races with ptrace_untrace() in case
+ * the child dies and is reaped by another thread.
+ *
+ * We only do the memory accounting at this point and
+ * leave the buffer deallocation and the bts tracer
+ * release to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called
+ * later on with tasklist_lock held.
+ */
+ release_locked_buffer(child->bts_buffer, child->bts_size);
}
#else
static inline void ptrace_bts_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) {}
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e8ddc98b840..3d7fb44d7d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1305,5 +1305,6 @@ void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void);
extern void *alloc_locked_buffer(size_t size);
extern void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size);
+extern void release_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 028ec482fdd..2b57f7e6039 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(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+}
+
+void free_locked_buffer(void *buffer, size_t size)
+{
+ release_locked_buffer(buffer, size);
kfree(buffer);
}