ptrace: fix race between ptrace_resume() and wait_task_stopped()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:47:29 +0000 (12:47 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 May 2015 19:56:24 +0000 (21:56 +0200)
commitddb56eac0e63d9eea725bbbebdb3d1df7e58242c
tree54161a2c34bec5da41d00594f7bfc4ce52e3276c
parent00c65c8a660bd5b5d4228137ff5be2654dd1840a
ptrace: fix race between ptrace_resume() and wait_task_stopped()

commit b72c186999e689cb0b055ab1c7b3cd8fffbeb5ed upstream.

ptrace_resume() is called when the tracee is still __TASK_TRACED.  We set
tracee->exit_code and then wake_up_state() changes tracee->state.  If the
tracer's sub-thread does wait() in between, task_stopped_code(ptrace => T)
wrongly looks like another report from tracee.

This confuses debugger, and since wait_task_stopped() clears ->exit_code
the tracee can miss a signal.

Test-case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <assert.h>

int pid;

void *waiter(void *arg)
{
int stat;

for (;;) {
assert(pid == wait(&stat));
assert(WIFSTOPPED(stat));
if (WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGHUP)
continue;

assert(WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGCONT);
printf("ERR! extra/wrong report:%x\n", stat);
}
}

int main(void)
{
pthread_t thread;

pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
for (;;)
kill(getpid(), SIGHUP);
}

assert(pthread_create(&thread, NULL, waiter, NULL) == 0);

for (;;)
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, SIGCONT);

return 0;
}

Note for stable: the bug is very old, but without 9899d11f6544 "ptrace:
ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL" the fix
should use lock_task_sighand(child).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com>
Tested-by: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/ptrace.c