arm, 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 15:35:18 +0000 (17:35 +0200)
commitbf0b8f4b55e591ba417c2dbaff42769e1fc773b0
tree4d70fa98ef40860ff596fccb05518c1806697a39
parent07fa7a0a8a586c01a8b416358c7012dcb9dc688d
arm, 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: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c