From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 17:49:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Fix ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme()/de_thread() race
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc4~26
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9;p=linux-2.6

Fix ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme()/de_thread() race

This holds the task lock (and, for ptrace_attach, the tasklist_lock)
over the actual attach event, which closes a race between attacking to a
thread that is either doing a PTRACE_TRACEME or getting de-threaded.

Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for reminding me about this, and Chris Wright
for noticing a lost return value in my first version.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 4e0f0ec003..b0f8da80d7 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -148,12 +148,16 @@ int ptrace_may_attach(struct task_struct *task)
 int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	int retval;
-	task_lock(task);
+
 	retval = -EPERM;
 	if (task->pid <= 1)
-		goto bad;
+		goto out;
 	if (task->tgid == current->tgid)
-		goto bad;
+		goto out;
+
+	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	task_lock(task);
+
 	/* the same process cannot be attached many times */
 	if (task->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
 		goto bad;
@@ -166,17 +170,15 @@ int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task)
 				      ? PT_ATTACHED : 0);
 	if (capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
 		task->ptrace |= PT_PTRACE_CAP;
-	task_unlock(task);
 
-	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	__ptrace_link(task, current);
-	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, task);
-	return 0;
 
 bad:
+	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	task_unlock(task);
+out:
 	return retval;
 }
 
@@ -417,21 +419,22 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
  */
 int ptrace_traceme(void)
 {
-	int ret;
+	int ret = -EPERM;
 
 	/*
 	 * Are we already being traced?
 	 */
-	if (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
-		return -EPERM;
-	ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current);
-	if (ret)
-		return -EPERM;
-	/*
-	 * Set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags.
-	 */
-	current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
-	return 0;
+	task_lock(current);
+	if (!(current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)) {
+		ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current);
+		/*
+		 * Set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags.
+		 */
+		if (!ret)
+			current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
+	}
+	task_unlock(current);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /**