[PATCH RT 01/13] ptrace: dont open IRQs in ptrace_freeze_traced() too early

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 10:49:56 EST


3.12.54-rt74-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In the non-RT case the spin_lock_irq() here disables interrupts as well
as raw_spin_lock_irq(). So in the unlock case the interrupts are enabled
too early.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/ptrace.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index c8cd8ffab511..fe11653fb005 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -135,12 +135,14 @@ static bool ptrace_freeze_traced(struct task_struct *task)

spin_lock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
if (task_is_traced(task) && !__fatal_signal_pending(task)) {
- raw_spin_lock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
if (task->state & __TASK_TRACED)
task->state = __TASK_TRACED;
else
task->saved_state = __TASK_TRACED;
- raw_spin_unlock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
ret = true;
}
spin_unlock_irq(&task->sighand->siglock);
--
2.7.0