Re: [PATCH 9/9] ptrace: Don't change __state

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/26, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> @@ -253,7 +252,7 @@ static int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
>  	 */
>  	if (lock_task_sighand(child, &flags)) {
>  		if (child->ptrace && child->parent == current) {
> -			WARN_ON(READ_ONCE(child->__state) == __TASK_TRACED);
> +			WARN_ON(child->jobctl & JOBCTL_DELAY_WAKEKILL);

This WARN_ON() doesn't look right.

It is possible that this child was traced by another task and PTRACE_DETACH'ed,
but it didn't clear DELAY_WAKEKILL.

If the new debugger attaches and calls ptrace() before the child takes siglock
ptrace_freeze_traced() will fail, but we can hit this WARN_ON().

Oleg.