ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints

When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

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>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index a1147e5dd245e8d7d262598b3c920ceb796efd00..9178d5cc0b0143a0e81336e6dea09e1cbedab86e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ static inline void ptrace_init_task(struct task_struct *child, bool ptrace)
                child->ptrace = current->ptrace;
                __ptrace_link(child, current->parent);
        }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+       atomic_set(&child->ptrace_bp_refcnt, 1);
+#endif
 }
 
 /**
@@ -350,6 +354,13 @@ extern int task_current_syscall(struct task_struct *target, long *callno,
                                unsigned long args[6], unsigned int maxargs,
                                unsigned long *sp, unsigned long *pc);
 
-#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+extern int ptrace_get_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk);
+extern void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk);
+#else
+static inline void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL */
 
 #endif

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 18d63cea28481c478906f791e384b520ad1f483b..781abd13767302cce2ba08db01a211e3178de0d9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1537,6 +1537,9 @@ struct task_struct {
                unsigned long memsw_nr_pages; /* uncharged mem+swap usage */
        } memcg_batch;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+       atomic_t ptrace_bp_refcnt;
+#endif
 };
 
 /* Future-safe accessor for struct task_struct's cpus_allowed. */

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f5d2f63bae0b70b2818edd92e06040906f115216..8dd87418154205940341f98641191fe1c1d6ea70 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
        /*
         * FIXME: do that only when needed, using sched_exit tracepoint
         */
-       flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
+       ptrace_put_breakpoints(tsk);
 
        exit_notify(tsk, group_dead);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0fc1eed28d2783e0b2779fe50d1ff86fbf4ca858..dc7ab65f3b36cb0b71c8365e13d0e73a9601f6ee 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/regset.h>
+#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
 
 
 /*
@@ -879,3 +880,19 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ptrace(compat_long_t request, compat_long_t pid,
        return ret;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+int ptrace_get_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+       if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&tsk->ptrace_bp_refcnt))
+               return 0;
+
+       return -1;
+}
+
+void ptrace_put_breakpoints(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->ptrace_bp_refcnt))
+               flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */