[09/71] x86, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 19 2011 - 14:08:02 EST


2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 87dc669ba25777b67796d7262c569429e58b1ed4 upstream.

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 <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ static int ptrace_write_dr7(struct task_
unsigned len, type;
struct perf_event *bp;

+ if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(tsk) < 0)
+ return -ESRCH;
+
data &= ~DR_CONTROL_RESERVED;
old_dr7 = ptrace_get_dr7(thread->ptrace_bps);
restore:
@@ -655,6 +658,9 @@ restore:
}
goto restore;
}
+
+ ptrace_put_breakpoints(tsk);
+
return ((orig_ret < 0) ? orig_ret : rc);
}

@@ -668,10 +674,17 @@ static unsigned long ptrace_get_debugreg

if (n < HBP_NUM) {
struct perf_event *bp;
+
+ if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(tsk) < 0)
+ return -ESRCH;
+
bp = thread->ptrace_bps[n];
if (!bp)
- return 0;
- val = bp->hw.info.address;
+ val = 0;
+ else
+ val = bp->hw.info.address;
+
+ ptrace_put_breakpoints(tsk);
} else if (n == 6) {
val = thread->debugreg6;
} else if (n == 7) {
@@ -686,6 +699,10 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(st
struct perf_event *bp;
struct thread_struct *t = &tsk->thread;
struct perf_event_attr attr;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ if (ptrace_get_breakpoints(tsk) < 0)
+ return -ESRCH;

if (!t->ptrace_bps[nr]) {
ptrace_breakpoint_init(&attr);
@@ -709,24 +726,23 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(st
* writing for the user. And anyway this is the previous
* behaviour.
*/
- if (IS_ERR(bp))
- return PTR_ERR(bp);
+ if (IS_ERR(bp)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(bp);
+ goto put;
+ }

t->ptrace_bps[nr] = bp;
} else {
- int err;
-
bp = t->ptrace_bps[nr];

attr = bp->attr;
attr.bp_addr = addr;
err = modify_user_hw_breakpoint(bp, &attr);
- if (err)
- return err;
}

-
- return 0;
+put:
+ ptrace_put_breakpoints(tsk);
+ return err;
}

/*


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