x86, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
commit3796afe5ddc0fc128ea2e22e2e04a6531ec7a62e
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:29:36 +0000 (8 17:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 23 May 2011 18:22:56 +0000 (23 11:22 -0700)
treefc6fc2658b4807ed7d1d7ec3f6fbb7dcc65f810c
parent5bb7b34ca510ce94d7a773773fc3731c834489ec
x86, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

commit 87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4 upstream.

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>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c