powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
authorFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:29:36 +0000 (17:29 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:33:54 +0000 (17:33 +0200)
commit07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d
tree2200131ce41d391b0733fdd5c4c8abeaddceca78
parent87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c