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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-09-05 11:17:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-05 11:30:42 -0700
commita2a8474c3fff88d8dd52d05cb450563fb26fd26c (patch)
tree455415da039a77627f47ed19318bb9c8aa17de4d /include/linux
parentdd5d241ea955006122d76af88af87de73fec25b4 (diff)
exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex
Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read /proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since "mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec" 04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d commit in 2.6.31. But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC. The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex. Even if we remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(), another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the tracee resumes. With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and we do not hold it throughout, instead: - introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred. - install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(), and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop(). or, if exec fails, free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which indicates install_exec_creds() was not called. Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/binfmts.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 61ee18c1bdb..2046b5b8af4 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ extern int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm * bprm,
int executable_stack);
extern int bprm_mm_init(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
extern int copy_strings_kernel(int argc,char ** argv,struct linux_binprm *bprm);
+extern int prepare_bprm_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
extern void install_exec_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
extern void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs);
extern int set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new);