x86, 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 15:32:40 +0000 (17:32 +0200)
commit87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4
tree861710b50740b7d3924ce254963f3b4d26f0a514
parentbf26c018490c2fce7fe9b629083b96ce0e6ad019
x86, 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]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c